He would boast to certain friends of his sexual misadventures, often with the heterosexual men he was later accused of raping. Some had heard him describe “turning” heterosexual men as a sport. His friends say they had no knowledge of his crimes. ![]() Giving evidence in the fourth trial, Sinaga told of using gay dating apps including Grindr and Hornet. He never hid his sexuality in Manchester, where he was a regular on Canal Street and in the Gay Village. His mother came to the first pre-trial hearing, but was not present for any of the four trials her son insisted on putting his victims through, with the defence claiming the men he drugged and filmed himself raping were only pretending to be asleep. Sinaga, known as Rey, rarely talked about his family or life back home, where he had two siblings. ![]() As well as paying tens of thousands of pounds in tuition fees, his father financed Sinaga’s flat in Montana House, a few doors down from Factory nightclub, which became his favourite place to look for men. For the next 10 years, up until his arrest on 2 June 2017, he lived off money wired from Indonesia by his father, a banker. Born in 1983 to a Catholic family in Jambi in the Indonesian island of Sumatra, Sinaga came to the UK in 2007 on a student visa when he was 24.
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