Terrigal: Siena Densem, Zachary Purdue, Noah Edwards and William Nichols charged over gay teacher’s home invasion

Four young people who allegedly posed online as a teenage boy to gain access to a gay teacher’s unit, where they bashed and robbed him, are expected to plead guilty, a court has heard.

The four young people allegedly contacted the victim via the gay hook-up app Grindr. (File picture: Getty Images)

Four young people are expected to plead guilty to a vicious home invasion, assault and robbery of a gay teacher, a court has heard.

Siena Densem, 20, of Erina and Noah Peter Edwards, 19, of Bateau Bay, were excused from Gosford Local Court on Friday where Zachery Purdue, 20, of Bateau Bay, appeared in person and William Nichols, 20, of Parkwood in Queensland, appeared via video link.

All four have been charged with aggravated breaking and entering and inflicting actual bodily harm, detaining a victim for financial advantage, dealing with proceeds of crime and aggravated robbery.

Purdue was charged with a fifth offence of recklessly destroying property when he allegedly ripped the victim’s T-shirt.

Police will allege the four posed as a teenage boy on the gay hook-up application Grindr and began engaging with a then 39-year-old teacher.

The unit block on Junction Rd, Terrigal. The teacher no longer lives there. Picture: Google

The teacher invited what he thought was a 17-year-old boy to his Terrigal unit on Junction Rd for sex and opened the security gate to his apartment complex about 10pm on January 24 last year.

Charge sheets allege the group of young people turned up instead and, once inside, all bashed and kicked him before robbing him of six bottles of alcohol, a Britney Spears poster, a cassette tape and $647 cash.

The four also stole a Britney Spears poster from his unit.

Police will further allege the group threatened to harm him further and report him as a pedophile if he reported the home invasion to police.

The teacher did report the incident the following day and was himself later charged with using a carriage service to procure a child for sex.

However he pleaded not guilty and the charge was ultimately dismissed after a magistrate found the evidence police were relying on was “inadmissable”.

In her ruling, that magistrate told the court the evidence was obtained by these four “pedo hunters”, illegally, as part of their alleged plan to rob him.

Solicitors for all four co-accuseds told the court on Friday their clients were going to plead guilty but just needed a short adjournment to agree on the facts.

All four will be required to face court again on March 28 to formally enter pleas.