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. The court heard Donaldson sent a text to the victim, reading, “should have picked a different career, honey”. He then called the hotel reception reporting someone had been “cut”.arrested in bushlandThe victim suffered fractures to her skull, cheek and eye socket and spent three months in hospital, including in a traumatic brain injury unit for ongoing neurological difficulties. She also has permanent reduced vision in her right eye.
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