A young German backpacker’s holiday of a lifetime became a horror film-esque nightmare when she was kidnapped and raped just two weeks after arriving in Australia.
The 19-year-old was fed chocolate laced with sedatives, cable-tied and raped in a shearing shed by a man who picked her up from a “deserted” bus stop near a remote Queensland town after she responded to an ad for a nanny and farmhand.
It was after dark when Peter Van de Wetering, 48, arrived in a hire car and wearing a dodgy disguise comprised of a beard, wig and “falling off” moustache, according to Fairfax Media.
He offered the girl chocolate to eat, which she didn’t finish because of its odd taste, before taking her to a nearby shearing shed where he tied her legs and raped her.
“He told her… ‘You will do this or I will kill you’,” crown prosecutor David Meredith told the Brisbane’s district court on Monday.