“You probably did what you probably did to [her] since you wished to do it, and also you thought you would possibly get away with it. And since nothing about her humanity constrained you.”
Wilson has spent greater than three years in custody awaiting sentence however should serve 16 years earlier than he’s eligible for parole. He pleaded responsible to 3 costs of rape, which cowl all of the sexual offences, and single counts of false imprisonment, deliberately inflicting harm and theft, associated to $3130 he stole from the girl.
Robert Wilson’s dwelling in Darley, close to Bacchus Marsh.Credit score:Simone Fox Koob
The ordeal started when Wilson picked the girl up from her work on the Monday afternoon and instructed her they wanted to speak at his dwelling. When contained in the Darley home, Wilson punched and stomped on the girl, picked her up by the ankles, strangled after which raped her.
The following day, an alarm activated when the girl stepped out of the bed room and Wilson struck her to the physique with an iron bar, threatened to kill her with the speargun and raped her.
Because the abuse and assaults continued over the next days, the girl’s mates despatched Wilson messages on Fb asking the place she was. The lady beforehand instructed mates she feared Wilson.
Wilson instructed the buddies the girl was unwell and could be dwelling by the Friday, however then instructed her he would kill the buddies. He additionally filmed movies the place he instructed on the solutions to provide, and threatened to ship degrading pictures of the girl to her household if she went to the police.
A speargun utilized by Robert Wilson to threaten his sufferer.Credit score:Victoria Police
The lady instructed the court docket in April that though she was “paralysed with worry” in the course of the ordeal, her will to stay was sturdy. Greater than three years on, she skilled nightmares and was exhausted from dwelling in a everlasting state of flight.
“My life won’t ever be regular once more,” she wrote in a sufferer impression assertion.
On Friday, the choose counseled the girl’s braveness and endurance in surviving and the “Herculean process” of describing what occurred to her mates, police and the courts.
“It cleared the pathway to justice on this case and subsequently to a safer neighborhood,” the choose stated.
Wilson grew up in Tasmania and was kicked out of dwelling at 15 after an argument along with his father, who was violent and abused alcohol and medicines.
He was married for seven years however separated in 2017 and is not in touch along with his two daughters.
Todd acknowledged that Wilson accepted accountability, however discovered there was no regret or rationalization for his crimes.
Wilson has prior convictions together with assault and stomping on one other girl’s head.
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