HOW THE ACCUSED MET THE VICTIM
In April 2010, O created a message thread on the online forum Sammyboy, which is predominantly sex-themed.
According to court documents, O’s first post on the thread invited other like-minded men with “wife fantasies” to contact him and share stories, photos and videos “on a more discreet basis”.
From around that year, O and J started communicating over Skype. J asked O to approach his wife, and gave O her contact details.
In a previous hearing for J’s case, the court heard that the two men had agreed for O to talk to J’s wife and see whether she was faithful to him or would have an affair.
About a month after they started talking, O met J’s wife alone for dinner.
On another occasion, on or around Sep 2, 2010, they met alone for lunch. They then had consensual sex in a resort.
O did not tell J about this sexual encounter, and continued to chat with J’s wife online after that.
Sometime after this, J sent a message to O saying that his wife was drunk, and asking if O wanted to come over to their place. O went to their flat.
The trial will seek to establish the facts leading up to and what happened in the master bedroom of the flat, which are in dispute.
The network of rapes was discovered almost a decade later in January 2020, when J’s wife made a police report after finding explicit photos of herself in her husband’s phone.
O, who was a finance executive at the time, was arrested at home that same month.