A MAN who answered a personal ad on a website advertising "sexual encounters" was tied up, repeatedly bashed, robbed and then injected with ice during a terrifying ordeal.
The date was going fine until the woman, who said her name was "Sarah", asked if she could invite her friends over for group sex.
But instead when the group arrived the victim was subjected to a sustained and traumatic abduction, during which he was driven around Newcastle and forced to withdraw cash, threatened with a pistol, punched, kicked, tied up in the shower and repeatedly threatened that he was going to be killed.
The man's house was ransacked and his car and motorcycle were stolen.
At one point, while he was tied up, the man heard the group arguing about whether or not they should murder him in the backyard.
And the ringleader of the group, the man's primary tormentor, was George Edwin Jones, a 33-year-old career criminal and self-proclaimed member of the Down to Ride gang.
Jones appeared in Newcastle Local Court on Wednesday via audio visual link from jail where he pleaded guilty to specially aggravated detain in company and cause actual bodily harm, two counts of demanding property in company with menaces and stealing a motorcycle. Jones, who is represented by barrister Bill Hussey and solicitor Kristy Winter, will next appear in Newcastle District Court next week to get a sentence date.
The victim picked up his date from Hamilton railway station on August 25 last year and the pair had a couple of drinks. But when she tried to initiate sex he said he wasn't interested.
The girl offered to invite her friends over for group sex and eventually a group of people came over to the house.
But the victim knew he was in trouble when Jones began demanding money.
"You owe her $500 for coming here for sex," Jones said, pointing at another one of the girls.
Jones then punched the victim to the ground and kicked him in the stomach. He tried to flee, but Jones followed him outside, threw him to the ground and said: "I'll bash your f---ing skull in if you try to leave".
Jones then made the victim drive him and one of the girls into Newcastle, where he ordered him to drive down a dark alley and said to the girl: "your choice, your money, we can let him bleed out here if you want".
Jones then drove around making the victim withdraw money from ATMs and making him pay for a huge amount of fast food.
When they returned to the victim's home, his house had been trashed and his TV was missing.
The group tied him up and injected him with ice, while Jones continued to punch him in the head and threaten him with a gun.
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