Matthew Donaldson bludgeoned the woman with a hammer and left her for dead before he fled on a train, posting “Game Over” on Facebook.
A man who bought a hammer from Bunnings and took a “torture porn bag” to a Sydney hotel where he bludgeoned a sex worker will spend a maximum of nine years behind bars for the “frenzied and brutal attack” which left her with lifelong injuries.
Sentencing Donaldson on Friday in Downing Centre District Court, Judge Antony Townsden said the victim “suffered a frenzied and brutal attack” involving multiple blows to the head.The judge set a maximum prison term of nine years, with a non-parole period of six years, after a 25 per cent discount for his guilty plea.
The woman had been booked for two hours from 7.30pm and the pair had drinks at the hotel bar before ordering a cheese platter to the room. Donaldson told police the victim became unhappy when he cut off her underpants, and they had started talking about relationships and “whether it was right for women ... to have sex for money as opposed to love” before he struck her in the head.to Facebook with the caption, “Game Over”.
The judge said the woman’s cognitive function remains at a reduced capacity and is “not expected to improve”. Townsden noted, in a victim impact statement, she said she had “felt like a child” as she could not open her mouth and eat properly for a year, describing the attack as “destroying her life”.
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