‘Master of natural healing’ who raped tourist after giving her Rohypnol-laced drink gets 12 years
Married man tried to film crime, which he committed after the German woman went to him with back pain
A self-proclaimed health consultant who raped a German tourist using a date-rape drug mixed into a herbal concoction which also contained vodka was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Wednesday.
During the trial, Man Yiu-fai, 43, claimed he gave the then 23-year-old woman the South American herb ayahuasca for a spiritual ceremony, without knowing that the concoction he offered would contain Flunitrazepam, a date-rape drug also known as Rohypnol.
But deputy High Court judge Mr Justice Michael Stuart-Moore on Wednesday slammed that as “plainly utter nonsense”.
“He knew exactly what he was doing. He had deliberately added Rohypnol for the purpose of rape,” the judge said, saying that the married man showed not “a grain of remorse”.
The judge also noted that Man used a tiny gadget to secretly film the crime to fulfil his “perverted desire”, and that he raped the woman without using any protection.