Adam Hall pleads guilty to rape, torture of his girlfriend
After 12 hours of torture at the hands of a man she met on a dating website, she ran towards a light on at a nearby house. Once inside she asked a stunned 10-year-old girl to get her parents.
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A man has pleaded guilty to hogtying his girlfriend before torturing and raping her for 12 hours so badly she thought she was going to die.
Adam Hall, 49, of Woodberry near Maitland, pleaded guilty to kidnapping, three counts of aggravated sexual intercourse without consent and nine counts of sexual intercourse without consent at Gosford Local Court on Friday.
An agreed set of facts tendered in court revealed Hall met a woman on the Plenty of Fish dating website in which his profile listed him as an “alpha male, dominant, polyamorous”.
He told her if she let him be in charge of their sexual relationship he would look after her and love her.
They were house sitting at Macmasters Beach about 4pm on Sunday, February 10, when they got into an argument about preparing dinner and she started recording him on her mobile phone.
She went downstairs to read a book when he entered the room, twisted her arms behind her back and punched her a number of times.
An audio recording on her phone captured him calling her a “maggot” and a “dog” and threatening to cut her throat if she made a noise.
“Settle down or I will kill you now and just f...ing rape your corpse,” he told her.
He took her upstairs where he got a knife from the kitchen before pushing her down the stairs.
As she got up he punched her in the face and dragged her into the study where he used the knife to cut an 8cm-long wound to her upper right thigh.
“The offender told the victim that if she did everything she was supposed to he would leave her tied up and not kill her,” the facts read.
Over the next 12 hours Hall made his girlfriend of 14 months perform sexual acts, at times while he watched pornography and on at least two occasions while he filmed her on his mobile phone with her hands tied behind her back.
At one point during the ordeal he dragged her into the garage and got a pair of pliers and a hammer.
He told her if she did not comply with his specific demands he would pull out her teeth with the pliers or break her toes with the hammer.
At 2.24am he bound and gagged her and put her in the back seat under a blanket while he drove to the 7-Eleven at Kincumber to buy cigarettes and a lighter.
Back at the house he made her smoke a cigarette, despite the fact she was a non-smoker, and ash on the floor before raping her.
“During this period the offender was consuming amyl nitrate by way of ‘sniffs’,” the facts read.
At 4.30am Hall fell asleep and the victim was able to flee wearing only a grey jumper.
She ran towards the beach until she saw a light on at a nearby house and jumped the fence. She went inside where she encountered a 10-year-old girl who she asked to get her parents.
“The victim said she had been raped, beaten, stabbed and `hogtied’ by her partner at Lakeside Drive, Macmasters Beach,” the facts read.
By the time police arrived her eyes were almost completely shut from swelling.
They went to the house where they found blood stains and clumps of hair.
Police conducted a widespread search involving POL Air and the dog unit but could not locate Hall.
At 12.45am the next day Hall called triple-0 from a pay phone near the Caltex service station at Wamberal and told the operator he wanted to hand himself in for a crime.
Police arrived and found him sitting in a gutter.
In a police interview Hall said he discovered she was missing when he woke up so he fled on his motorcycle, passing a police car en route to the house.
He said he spent the day drinking whiskey and smoking cigarettes in some bushland and threw his phone away.
Police found the phone and found it contained two videos of the assaults.
He admitted some of the things he did to his victim was for “humiliation”.
“I really don’t know what happened, I just snapped and assaulted, viciously assaulted her. Um, I cut her, I hit her repeatedly. I forced her to perform sexual acts. I threatened her life,” he told police during the interview.
“Um, I restrained her. I threatened her with violence, I threatened her with her life repeatedly … I forced her into the back of a car then I tied her up so I could go and get cigarettes.”
Dressed in prison greens and with his hands clasped together during much of his appearance via video link, Hall pleaded guilty to each offence as it was read out.
He will face Gosford District Court on December 13 to set a date for his sentencing.