ByKelly-Ann MillsNews Reporter15:41, 26 Apr 2022
A woman who was kidnapped and raped for four days by a man she met on a dating app, has relived her ordeal in court.
Robert Wilson met the woman through dating app Badoo before she was locked inside a bedroom at his house his house in Melbourne, Australia, from March 25 to 29 in 2019.
Victoria's County Court heard the room was rigged so that the moment she stepped outside the bedroom door into a hallway, an alarm would be triggered to notify Wilson.
The 39-year-old woman was only released when a friend contacted Wilson asking if he knew anything about the missing following their date.
The court heard that throughout the ordeal Wilson threatened to kill the woman while pointing a spear-gun at her head and held a knife to her throat when she tried to call for help.
She was raped 18 times and beaten with an iron bar. She was also attacked and beaten so badly she struggled to see.
The court was also told the woman's friends desperately searched for her as she was missing, publicly posting on Facebook and trying to locate Wilson's house.
He released her on the condition her friends deleted the social media posts and did not go to authorities.
As soon as she was released they called the emergency services and Wilson was arrested for false imprisonment, rape, theft and intentionally causing injury.
He pleaded guilty to all the charges and is still to be sentenced.