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How this life turned out for this Incel sounds eerily is how my life is currently . He suffered from paranoia Autism, Schizophrenia from loneliness and watched endless gore videos . He then snapped and bought a torture kit and half beat a escort to death with hammer . I don't want to being sentenced to Asylum but that seems my destiny
A man who bought a “torture kit” from Bunnings and booked an escort he later bludgeoned with a hammer in a Sydney CBD hotel was more likely acting from a “nihilistic world view” than as a result of psychotic delusions caused by schizophrenia, a Sydney court has been told.
In the days and hours leading up to his attack on a woman at the Primus Hotel on February 23, 2021, Matthew Donaldson made the booking, bought a sledgehammer, withdrew cash, checked out a firearm from a gun club at St Marys, ordered food and sanitised his hands, a sentencing hearing at Downing Centre District Court heard on Wednesday.
Matthew Donaldson took photos inside the hotel room which he posted after the attack with the caption, “Game over”.
He also took photographs of the hotel room that he would post to his Facebook as he rode a train to Penrith after the attack – which the woman survived – with the caption, “Game over”.
Police found Donaldson in bushland two days after the assault. Donaldson, 43, pleaded guilty last year to causing grievous bodily harm with intent to murder over the assault, in which he cut off the woman’s underwear with a knife and bludgeoned her on the head with the hammer.
The court heard on Wednesday that Donaldson told police he had argued with the woman, then 26, about the “morality or otherwise” of her job before hitting her with the hammer.
The court heard Donaldson later told forensic psychiatrist Dr Adam Martin that he had never had sex before, but had watched violent pornography from his mid-30s and preferred to see men with large penises because he had “a particularly, unusually small penis himself”.
The court heard Donaldson’s penis size had been confirmed via a medical examination. It also heard that he told police he had a “video game obsession”, fantasised about being a “playboy” with multiple sexual partners, wanted to tie women up and role-play being a serial killer, and called women who rejected him “bitches”.
Martin told the court he believed Donaldson did have schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder, but was sceptical of his claim to have been acting on voices from a “messenger” when he carried out the attack – or the suggestion that something could have triggered a psychotic episode while he was in the hotel room intending to have a sexual encounter with the woman.
The court heard Donaldson had told another psychiatrist, whom he consulted regarding a possible defence of mental illness, that he feared he was under threat from the woman he attacked.
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“I’m keeping an open mind ... trying to explain to the court what I think is the most likely scenario,” Martin said, adding that, given the degree of planning, he thought sexual sadism disorder was more likely a factor.
Donaldson did not tell Martin that he was afraid for his own life at the time of the assault when they spoke for an hour and 45 minutes in January last year, the psychiatrist said.
He accepted that he saw Donaldson for less time than the other psychiatrist, Dr Andrew Ellis, who the court heard had a different opinion about the impact of schizophrenia on the offender’s mental state.
Defence barrister Sarah Talbert put to Martin that sadomasochistic pornography is also watched by people who don’t have sexual sadism disorder.
“They don’t turn up to a hotel with a hammer and a torture kit and bash someone’s head in,” Martin replied.
The sentencing hearing will continue at a later date.
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A man who bought a “torture kit” from Bunnings and booked an escort he later bludgeoned with a hammer in a Sydney CBD hotel was more likely acting from a “nihilistic world view” than as a result of psychotic delusions caused by schizophrenia, a Sydney court has been told.
In the days and hours leading up to his attack on a woman at the Primus Hotel on February 23, 2021, Matthew Donaldson made the booking, bought a sledgehammer, withdrew cash, checked out a firearm from a gun club at St Marys, ordered food and sanitised his hands, a sentencing hearing at Downing Centre District Court heard on Wednesday.
Matthew Donaldson took photos inside the hotel room which he posted after the attack with the caption, “Game over”.
He also took photographs of the hotel room that he would post to his Facebook as he rode a train to Penrith after the attack – which the woman survived – with the caption, “Game over”.
Police found Donaldson in bushland two days after the assault. Donaldson, 43, pleaded guilty last year to causing grievous bodily harm with intent to murder over the assault, in which he cut off the woman’s underwear with a knife and bludgeoned her on the head with the hammer.
The court heard on Wednesday that Donaldson told police he had argued with the woman, then 26, about the “morality or otherwise” of her job before hitting her with the hammer.
The court heard Donaldson later told forensic psychiatrist Dr Adam Martin that he had never had sex before, but had watched violent pornography from his mid-30s and preferred to see men with large penises because he had “a particularly, unusually small penis himself”.
The court heard Donaldson’s penis size had been confirmed via a medical examination. It also heard that he told police he had a “video game obsession”, fantasised about being a “playboy” with multiple sexual partners, wanted to tie women up and role-play being a serial killer, and called women who rejected him “bitches”.
Martin told the court he believed Donaldson did have schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder, but was sceptical of his claim to have been acting on voices from a “messenger” when he carried out the attack – or the suggestion that something could have triggered a psychotic episode while he was in the hotel room intending to have a sexual encounter with the woman.
The court heard Donaldson had told another psychiatrist, whom he consulted regarding a possible defence of mental illness, that he feared he was under threat from the woman he attacked.
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“I’m keeping an open mind ... trying to explain to the court what I think is the most likely scenario,” Martin said, adding that, given the degree of planning, he thought sexual sadism disorder was more likely a factor.
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“To meet up with a sex worker while taking a torture kit … then engaging in serious violence in a seemingly organised manner” makes it more likely he was carrying out a “planned deliberate action based on a nihilistic world view” than a delusion he was being persecuted, Martin said.Donaldson did not tell Martin that he was afraid for his own life at the time of the assault when they spoke for an hour and 45 minutes in January last year, the psychiatrist said.
He accepted that he saw Donaldson for less time than the other psychiatrist, Dr Andrew Ellis, who the court heard had a different opinion about the impact of schizophrenia on the offender’s mental state.
Defence barrister Sarah Talbert put to Martin that sadomasochistic pornography is also watched by people who don’t have sexual sadism disorder.
“They don’t turn up to a hotel with a hammer and a torture kit and bash someone’s head in,” Martin replied.
The sentencing hearing will continue at a later date.
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