Gumtree rapist, 54, is jailed for 12 years

Gene Charles Bristow lured a 24-year-old backpacker to his hobby farm in Meningie under false pretenses in February 2017

Gene Charles Bristow lured a 24-year-old backpacker to his hobby farm in Meningie under false pretenses in February 2017

A cattle farmer who kidnapped and raped a Belgian backpacker in a dirty pig shed has been jailed for at least 12 years and six months.  

Gene Charles Bristow held the woman on his farm in Meningie, 150km south east of Adelaide, for 36 hours after he answered a Gumtree advertisement she had posted in search of work in 2017.

Judge Geraldine Davison on Tuesday sentenced him to 18 years in jail, with a non-parole period of 12 years, six months.  

Bristow, 54, was due to appear in Adelaide District Court last week but his sentencing has now been postponed because of an unknown illness. 

In February 2017, Bristow lured the 24-year-old backpacker to his hobby farm, claiming he could offer the woman temporary farm work, but instead when she arrived at his isolated residence he chained her up in a squalor repeatedly raped her.    

Bristow was found guilty by a jury in March on one count of aggravated kidnapping, two counts of rape, two counts of indecent ­assault, and one count of attempted rape.

Gene Charles Bristow held the woman on his farm in Meningie, 150km south east of Adelaide, for 36 hours after he answered a Gumtree advertisement she had posted in search of work in 2017

Gene Charles Bristow held the woman on his farm in Meningie, 150km south east of Adelaide, for 36 hours after he answered a Gumtree advertisement she had posted in search of work in 2017 

The images were shown to the court before Bristow was found guilty of six charges, including aggravated kidnapping, indecent assault and rape (pictured is the couch)

The images were shown to the court before Bristow was found guilty of six charges, including aggravated kidnapping, indecent assault and rape (pictured is the couch)

Sickening details of the kidnap and rape previously emerged during Bristow's trial, in which the victim gave evidence in court.  

She said he took her inside a disused pig shed where he asked to check the soles of her feet for needle marks and then pressed what turned out to

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