Capel Sound fiend Mathew Raku Raku jailed for kidnapping and raping Seaford woman
A Capel Sound mechanic threatened to cut off a woman’s tongue and dangle her from a bridge during a prolonged kidnapping and rape ordeal.
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A Mornington Peninsula mechanic who snatched a woman off the street, held her captive and then raped her has been jailed.
Mathew Raku Raku, 26, was sentenced in the County Court on Friday to a minimum six years’ jail after pleading guilty to charges including two counts of rape, kidnapping and making threats to kill.
Raku Raku grabbed his victim from a Seaford street and threw her into his car about 6pm on August 12, 2019.
He held a screwdriver to her head, locked the car doors, took her phone and told her that if she tried to get out of the car she would be dead, the court heard.
Raku Raku then drove the woman about four hours to Glenthompson while continually threatening her, and stole petrol on the way.
The fiend told his victim she was going to get a bullet in her head and threatened to cut off her tongue, dangle her off the side of a bridge by her feet, break her legs and tie her up by a choker chain and cable ties if she tried to run away.
The court heard the terrified victim believed she was going to be killed.
When they arrived at an empty house the victim lay by a heater to try to get warm and Raku Raku joined her.
He then raped her despite her efforts to push him off.
The following day he took her to visit a friend for several hours.
When they got back to the house, he told her they were staying in the car that night because the house was too cold.
They were sitting in the car when he broke down and said he couldn’t get done for kidnapping.
Raku Raku then put his hand around her throat and raped her
He made her swear on her life and her family’s life that she wouldn’t tell anyone and he would let her go, repeatedly telling her he would come and torture her if she told anyone.
He drove back to Melbourne about 10pm, again stealing petrol, and took her to his dad’s house.
The next morning he returned her phone and made her call her dad with a made-up story about where she’d been before he let her go to a bus stop.
The victim told a friend then reported the matter to police.
Raku Raku admitted to the kidnapping when police confronted him shortly after.
The court heard the Capel Sound mechanic, who was unemployed at the time of the offending, was brought up in a “loving family”.
However, the wheels fell off when Raku Raku became addicted to meth.
The court heard he didn’t believe he’d raped his victim.
“I didn’t think that was rape because she didn’t fight … I just wanted this done with so I pleaded guilty to rape,” Raku Raku told a psychologist.
Judge Paul Higham, one of the court’s most experienced judge when dealing with sex offenders, jailed Raku Raku for a maximum nine years and eight months.
