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When Tom [the fictitious name] woke up dazed, he was naked in someone else's apartment and with a man trying to sexually abuse him. The 18-year-old rugby player, confused and disoriented, managed to push his attacker, hit him in the head and escape. On his escape, he asked for help and led the police to his assailant's lair in the heart of Manchester. There they found Reynhard Sinaga, a millionaire college student, with a docile and harmless appearance who, for two years, drugged with liquid ecstasy and sexually attacked men in nightclubs in the city.
The young gay man, who was labeled a "evil serial rapist," was convicted of 136 rapes of 48 male victims becoming the UK's "most prolific rapist."
The devoted millionaire
Reynhard Tambos Maruli Tua Sinaga, better known as King, was born on February 19, 1983, on Jambi, an Indonesian island in Sumatra, into a wealthy Catholic family who wanted nothing to know about his homosexuality. Although his life in the country was accommodating—they lived in a mansion and had domestic service, chauffeur, gardener, etc.—Reyhnard preferred to lay dirt in between after his parents tried to marry him to a woman. They wanted me to have family.
But the young man, with the excuse of studying college, preferred to leave and live his homosexuality freely away from his own. He chose Manchester, in the UK, as one of the most open European cities to the gay community and sought an apartment in the well-known Gay Village area, very close to the clubs where he subsequently captured his victims.
It was 2007 and thanks to a student visa he did two master's degrees at the University of Manchester: one in Urban Planning and one in Sociology. After graduating in 2011, Rey began a PhD in Geography at the University of Leeds with a thesis entitled: "Sexuality and transnationalism in the day to day. Bisexual and gay men from Southeast Asia in Manchester." It was cancelled after his arrest in June 2017.
During his decade in the English city, Rey continued to behave as a devout Catholic and ran a liberal Anglican church in Rusholme, near his home, in which he befriended other older gays he called "his gay parents."
Soon, Rey's father, a...