The ABC can reveal there is a court battle to keep a man who abducted and raped a German backpacker 10 years ago behind bars, with forensic psychiatrists fearing he was a high risk of reoffending.
Hanna thought about jumping out of the car but there was no escape. She was thousands of kilometres from home, a stranger in a new country.Around 1am the next day, Hanna woke up alone in the dark, in long grass next to a road with no idea where she was.The chocolate she spat out the night before in the car was gone as was her money.After six hours of wandering through bush, Hanna found help from a couple at Spring Creek, who called police in Stanthorpe.
Detective Senior Sergeant McCusker said it became clear the man who attacked Hanna was a calculating sexual predator. "I said 'What are you going to do at Cottonvale?', she said 'I'm going to work on a farm' … there's no farm work in winter," Mr Hillier told ABC. Their relationship ended in 2007 when the woman told police she lost consciousness after she ate and drank a meal prepared by van de Wetering. She alleged she woke to him raping her.
A trace on the car's registration plate led police to a Brisbane rental company, which confirmed van de Wetering hired a Nissan X-Trail between August 12 and 14. His résumé showed he worked on a Queensland property not far from Cottonvale between 2005 and 2008 as a fruit picker. When police arrived at the property, they noticed Hanna's hand-drawn maps were strikingly similar to what they found."Opening that door was a very vivid image of how the victim described it … when we looked at the bed to our absolute disbelief, a number of zip ties were tied to the bed rails," Detective Senior Sergeant McCusker said.'What took you so long?'
Investigators also found 93 people, including Hanna, responded to van de Wetering's online ads for farmhands and the nanny job. Applicants had to supply a photo of themselves.
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