Robert Wilson held woman captive before raping, assaulting her
The harrowing details of a woman’s four-day ordeal after being held captive by a man who repeatedly raped her have been aired in court.
A Victorian man held a woman he met on a dating site captive in his home before raping and assaulting her.
Robert Wilson has pleaded guilty to three rolled-up counts of rape, false imprisonment, theft and intentionally causing injury.
The 35-year-old appeared in the County Court on Tuesday from Hopkins Correctional Centre.
Prosecutors told the court that Wilson met his victim on the dating app Badoo in 2019 before he picked her up from her work.
He then held her captive at his home in Darley, in Melbourne’s northwest, for four days.
During that time he brutally and repeatedly raped the victim, who was in her 30s, despite her pleas for him to stop, the court was told.
His vile attack included punching her in the face and kicking her in the bare vagina.
Wilson, a father of two, also bashed the woman when she tried to resist him and he forced her to transfer $3130 into his bank account.
While holding the woman hostage, Wilson held a crossbow to her head and asked if she wanted to die.
The woman described being in “extreme pain” during the ordeal and contemplated escaping through an unlocked window, prosecutors submitted in court.
Video taken in a car by Wilson was also aired in court. Wilson could be heard asking the woman if she felt safe to stay with him to which she replied yes.
Prosecutors submitted Wilson had instructed the woman to respond how he wanted.
The harrowing ordeal lasted four days.
The court was told that when Wilson let the woman go, he threatened to send a lewd photo of her to her family and friends if she told anyone of her ordeal.
The woman was scared to go to police but eventually reported the incident. Prosecutor Ruth Champion said officers observed that the woman was injured.
After Wilson was arrested, he initially denied raping the woman.
In a victim impact statement, the woman said she was not shown any mercy.
“I knew the whole time my life was under threat and this person may kill me at any moment,” she wrote.
“I thought, ‘I must stay alive, I must stay alive’.”
The matter will return to court for further plea at a later date.