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00:24There was an element of trust

00:27Frank had over these women based upon his position as an older male, as a boss.

00:34How many victims are involved in this?

00:37How many people has he offended against?

00:43We have someone who is actively recruiting international students

00:47for the purpose of sexually offending against them.

00:50They've accepted something to drink from him

00:53and they've woken up either in hospital or at home.

00:57It was the perfect crime because you have a victim

01:00who doesn't know that they've been a victim.

01:03I was scared of Frank.

01:06I wish I'd never met him.

01:09I mean, it's frightening.

01:11This was backyard anaesthesia.

01:13How did this happen under everyone's noses in plain sight?

01:18Oh my God, this is...

01:20This is really big.

01:32What's the law you want?

01:34My name's Lawrence Shanahan.

01:36I'm a detective leading senior consul of police

01:38and I currently work at the Hobsons Bay Criminal Investigation Unit.

01:52On 27 July 2019, I was working the morning crime shift at Melbourne Socket,

01:59which stands for Sex Offence and Child Abuse Investigation Team.

02:04It was approximately 2 o'clock when I received a phone call from the St Vincent's Hospital

02:11and I spoke to a young lady who informed me that she'd been at work

02:15when she believed that she'd been drugged by her boss

02:18and believed that she had been sexually offended against.

02:23And she'd gotten very sick and had a cardiac arrest.

02:27It obviously was strange to her because she said she wasn't feeling ill

02:30prior to going to her first day of work,

02:32in translation, at an immigration agency.

02:37Her boss was a man by the name of Frank Hu.

02:47She states that there was a period of time where she believed she left her carton of milk alone.

02:58And then when she came back, she had a drink of it and it tasted bitter.

03:03It was a short time after that that she started to feel dizzy and feel unwell.

03:10And then the next thing she knows, she wakes up in hospital.

03:17She just felt like something was off and something wasn't right.

03:21There was something about this job that just rung a bell with me.

03:26She was working in an office in the city.

03:31She was a Chinese student and the fact that she said her boss's name was Frank

03:35and that was something that really stuck to me.

03:40I got further details from her and let her know that the afternoon guys that were coming in,

03:45I actually saw them come in as I was on the phone to her.

03:48I said that they would be out there to have a chat to her.

03:54So as soon as I got off the phone, I had this thought in my mind that I've heard this

03:59before.

04:00I'm sure I've had a job that's similar to this involving this person, Frank.

04:08His name is Xiaodong Hu and goes by the English name Frank.

04:12He had nine offices within the same building in Little Collins Street.

04:20Multiple businesses which all appeared to be immigration agencies.

04:24He was both an Australian and Chinese citizen.

04:29So I looked on Interpose and then I found another job.

04:34I looked at it and I go, well, I don't know this job.

04:37But this isn't the job that I'm thinking of in my mind.

04:42I was like, OK, there's a third one here because I know I've done another one as well.

04:47Well, the connections between Victims 1, 2 and 3 were that they were all employed by Frank Hu.

04:55All his victims were Chinese.

04:58They've had something to drink or eat with him.

05:02And then they've become unconscious and woken up hours later.

05:07So I remember saying to the guys, there's something in this.

05:14I briefed the afternoon shift on the latest alleged victim of Frank Hu.

05:19And they went to St Vincent's Hospital to talk to the young lady.

05:32I'm Dr Janine Rouse and I am a clinical forensic physician at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine.

05:39We primarily work at the interface between medicine and law and with living victims of sexual violence, interpersonal violence.

05:47That comes with its own unique set of challenges.

05:54So on the 27th of July 2019, I remember distinctly I was out to dinner before starting a night shift.

06:07And I received a phone call from a colleague.

06:13My colleague was calling to tell me about a case.

06:18The story was that a female had woken up from intensive care where she had been intubated after having had

06:28a cardiac arrest where she'd been shocked back to life and required CPR.

06:34And she had alleged that she had been drugged on her first day of her new job and that she

06:42may have been sexually assaulted.

06:46Immediately, I knew that we'd had a case almost identical to this eight months prior that I'd also attended.

07:00A victim had contacted police and she had described starting her first day at a new job and her boss

07:09had given her a hot chocolate to drink.

07:14Shortly afterwards, she felt unwell.

07:22There was a period of unknown.

07:34And she'd ended up in the hospital.

07:39And she was concerned that she'd been sexually assaulted.

07:44So I became involved then.

07:48I conducted a forensic medical examination and collected toxicology.

07:56And the toxicology came back showing that there had been sedative hypnotic agents administered to that victim.

08:06Because the toxicology came back with such an unexpected result, I just assumed that this case had proceeded.

08:16So I was shocked and surprised eight months later to hear an almost identical story.

08:26Literally, my heart missed a beat when I realised this was a serial offence.

08:33I immediately ran out of the restaurant and got on the phone to the police and said,

08:38this is a serial guy and he's going to do a runner because I remembered he was from overseas and

08:42that it was sort of some sort of immigration set up in the city.

08:46Right in the heart of Melbourne CBD.

08:52Already, time has passed.

08:54It had been about four days since the alleged incident.

08:57And time is DNA, unfortunately.

09:00She'd been in intensive care for days.

09:02So, you know, she would have been washed and cleaned and clothes changed.

09:06And so already I'm thinking, gee, the forensic value in this exam is already dwindling.

09:14Things were confounded by all the drugs that she would have been administered in hospital.

09:18So even before arriving at the hospital, I was madly calling the treating doctors and asking about any samples of

09:25blood that may have been taken when she arrived.

09:29As it turned out, there was a sample of blood that was taken.

09:32So I was frantically on the phone saying, you need to get your hands on that vial of blood.

09:38The police will need this, even if you have to physically go down to the pathology lab and make sure

09:44that's not discarded.

09:45That is so important.

09:47We have to learn the lessons from the case eight months prior and we have to get everything right this

09:54time.

10:04On the morning of July 28, 2019, I was pretty keen to come back and find out what the afternoon

10:10guys had done.

10:14By the time I came in the morning, I remember being approached by one of the women from IFAS, Detective

10:20Kaye.

10:21And she said, you wouldn't believe what we found.

10:24There was a fourth victim.

10:27Another job on top of the three that there was from the day before that I knew about.

10:38She was also a Chinese student.

10:41She started working and it was her trial day.

10:46Frank had offered her a hot chocolate multiple times and she didn't want one.

10:52But she felt obligated to accept after he insisted.

11:02After that, she started to feel violently ill.

11:05She's gone to the toilet and thrown up.

11:08She's come back into the office and Frank has offered her a tablet to help ease her stomach.

11:14Which again, she's accepted.

11:17And then from there, she's basically become unconscious.

11:29And she's woken up in the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

11:35Frank, who has actually taken her to hospital himself in an Uber.

11:41And it was at that stage I was like, oh my God, this is, this is really big.

11:46We have someone who is actively recruiting international students from China for the purpose of sexually offending against them.

11:56At the time of reporting, two of the victims didn't want their matters investigated further.

12:04These people are reporting the most horrific thing that they've ever experienced in their life.

12:10They're at their most vulnerable the day they walk into a police station and tell us their story.

12:16Sometimes they just want to be heard.

12:18They just want to be believed.

12:20And quite often, that's enough.

12:24We now had two active cases.

12:27The report from yesterday, July 27, and the fourth victim I'd just heard about.

12:34We're joining the dots.

12:38They've responded to an advertisement on a Chinese website for an admin or translator position at his work.

12:46They were working alone with him.

12:48They've accepted something to drink from him.

12:52And they've woken up either in hospital or at home.

12:57And then I got told about the Border Force download.

13:07Frank, who had been moving back and forth between Australia and China for many years.

13:13Frank was of interest to Australian Border Force as he's an immigration agent.

13:18They had stopped him on his return to Australia in 2018.

13:23And they were able to search his belongings.

13:26And they've downloaded his phone as part of that process.

13:30They've found a bunch of images and videos of women who were unconscious and looked as though they were being

13:39sexually interfered with.

13:42He was questioned about this.

13:44However, he stated that it was role playing and it was all consensual.

13:50Which couldn't be disproven at the time.

13:56The Border Force had supplied information to Victoria Police.

14:00Unfortunately, at the time, no women were able to be identified so there wasn't enough evidence to take the investigation

14:06further.

14:09I've had a look at the images and videos.

14:13And then I remember talking to the guys and going,

14:16I don't think this is any of the four victims that we're talking about.

14:20So, it was at that stage, it was like, how many victims are involved in this?

14:26How many people has he offended against?

14:30The images and videos we were watching were really graphic.

14:35And really quite disturbing and it was a really serious job.

14:46In the sexual offence investigation, arresting the suspect is often the last step in the process.

14:53But in this case, the priority was to get Frank off the streets.

14:58It was clear that he was continuing to offend.

15:01So, the most important thing was keeping the community safe.

15:13My name is Sarah Morse.

15:15In July 2019, I was working as a Detective Senior Sergeant at the Sexual Crime Squad.

15:21This investigation started with the Melbourne Socket.

15:24However, they became aware that it was likely to breach sort of their scope because of the number of victims.

15:31They required extra resources.

15:34The Sexual Crime Squad has a greater capacity to investigate these offences.

15:40So, we took Laurie into the Sexual Crime Squad and he joined one of our teams.

15:45So, we were able to assist initially with the search warrants.

15:51Everyone within the office really chipped in and just made this their primary focus.

15:55Just gathered in as much evidence as we could in a small amount of time to get search warrants issued

16:01by the Magistrate so we could go and arrest this person.

16:12On the 1st of August 2019, we executed simultaneous search warrants on multiple offices on Little Collins Street.

16:27Office 303, which was on Level 3 of the Little Collins building, was his primary personal office.

16:37I remember knocking on the door, telling it was police and for him to open up.

16:45I'd clearly woken him up. He was half asleep.

16:48The first thing I did was arrest him, give him his caution and rights.

16:52I then searched him and he had women's underwear on.

16:57He had a pair of women's underwear in his pocket as well as pantyhose and condoms in his pocket.

17:05And he'd been asleep on some grey matting, which I would later identify in the videos and images of his

17:12offending.

17:15Franku had his personal office on Level 3, but there were other offices he'd leased within the building.

17:21His business was mainly run out of an office on Level 10.

17:26So, he sent a team up there as well.

17:30One of the employees actually approached police and disclosed that she believed that she had been offended against by Frank

17:36as well.

17:37So, we're now looking at victim number 5 that we've identified.

17:51This is a picture taken from the interview I did with Frank Hu.

17:56The first thing I noticed is the long fingernails.

18:01Really long fingernails.

18:04It was an interview in which he was very steadfast that he had done nothing wrong.

18:12Frank Hu agreed that the women who had made allegations against him had indeed been unconscious in his presence.

18:18But he said he'd done nothing to contribute to that.

18:22I showed Frank images of him sexually offending against an unconscious female.

18:28To which he said they'd had sex, it was consensual, she had fallen asleep during sex, but just because she

18:36was asleep that it doesn't mean you can stop.

18:39Which I contested and stated that that's not the case and that that is rape.

18:44He was very steadfast and just would not admit what he'd done was wrong.

18:51Frank Hu not making any admissions of guilt didn't change anything.

18:54We still had to prove each charge.

18:58We began working through the evidence we'd collected at his office when we arrested him.

19:07This is a close-up of the temporary mattress he was sleeping on.

19:12And this is an image of a syringe that was located in his office.

19:20We found a whole bunch of different drugs, like blister packets, bottles of tablets, multiple syringes and cannulas, along with

19:29sex toys, women's underwear.

19:34As far as the drugs were concerned, we didn't know what they were and we had to take them to

19:39VIFM to have them tested to give us some clarity as to what these drugs were and what they were

19:45used for.

19:47As the case grew, Laurie was communicating quite frequently and sending images of different medications and they weren't in English

19:56either.

19:57So there were sort of pictures of bottles and drugs all in Chinese and I used Google Translate literally on

20:03my phone to sort of try and work out what on earth are these, what are these drugs?

20:08And I'll never forget the moment when one of them just sort of popped up in the translator and it

20:13was seviflurane.

20:15And that was sort of the penny drop moment for me.

20:18Oh my God, this is, this is anaesthesia.

20:21These drugs were being used to firstly render the victim sedated.

20:27The small plastic tubing and the syringes were actually being used to maintain the victim in an anaesthetised state while

20:36the offending was occurring.

20:39The accused could sort of adjust the level of medication based on, you know, whether the victim was rousing or

20:45not.

20:45I mean, it's just, it's just incomprehensible. It's, it's, I mean, you're literally playing with death.

20:51Yeah, but never seen anything, anything like it.

20:55Over the next few weeks, we were getting back all the blood and urine test results for the cardiac arrest

21:01patient who'd set the investigation in motion.

21:06With those three mils of blood, the drugs did show up in the blood and the urine and they were

21:11unusual.

21:14For example, midazolam, which can induce amnesia, so it causes forgetfulness.

21:20Lignocaine, which is also used for local anaesthesia.

21:23It's also sometimes used for inserting a urinary catheter in males as a numbing gel.

21:30We had to sort of be medical detectives.

21:32So that meant, for example, speaking on the phone to the nurses that were working the day that the victim

21:38came into hospital just to ensure that they hadn't used, you know, a male urinary catheter pack for any reason.

21:45And that there was no lignocaine in the gel that they would have used to insert her catheter.

21:51And then we could sort of cross that off as a potential source.

21:55What followed was a slow process of elimination.

21:59I checked hundreds of pages of the victim's medical records to exclude alternative sources for the drugs that had been

22:06identified.

22:07To be able to say at the end of that hand on heart, the most likely thing is that the

22:12accused has administered these drugs to this victim without her knowledge.

22:17Had she not been in hospital when she had a cardiac arrest, she would have died. It's as simple as

22:24that.

22:25The drugs that were identified, I mean, it's frightening.

22:30This was backyard anaesthesia.

22:32Someone without a medical degree, outside of an operating theatre with breathing machines and medical teams.

22:39All the measures that we have in place when you administer anaesthesia.

22:43How did this happen under everyone's noses in plain sight?

22:52Who is Frank Hu?

22:55At the time, we did know who Frank Hu was.

22:59His Chinese passport indicated he was born in China in 1984.

23:05I've heard multiple stories about his family.

23:07One that his dad was in the military.

23:09One that his dad worked for the Chinese equivalent of VicRoads.

23:13One that his mother was the chief of Chinese police.

23:17I don't know what's true and what's false when it comes to his backstory.

23:21There were some facts we learned about him.

23:23Frank Hu came to Australia in early 2000s and finished his schooling at Taylors College in Melbourne.

23:30He got a degree in computer science from Deakin University.

23:35He established his own migration agency on Little Collins Street in 2016.

23:40And somewhere along the way, he became an Australian citizen.

23:46He is an incredibly manipulative person.

23:50He had two wives and three girlfriends all at the same time.

23:55None of these women knew about each other.

23:57They were all under the impression that he was in a relationship with them and in a relationship with only

24:04them.

24:06When we executed the warrants on the building at Little Collins Street,

24:09we also executed warrants on the residential addresses that we had listed for Frank Hu in Melbourne.

24:17But before knocking on the doors, we spent a good deal of time examining the images and photos of the

24:22victims that we had on fire.

24:27The original report came from the Australian Border Force who had provided Victoria Police with images from the offender's phone

24:35when he returned to Australia after a trip to China.

24:41When the search warrant was executed in 2019, the investigators realised that the person who answered the door,

24:48they recognised her from the images that were on that phone and realised that she was one of those victims.

24:54That was quite unsettling because they did realise it's likely the offender was offending against people in his own home,

25:00potentially his partner, and that would have gradually dawned on the investigators as they entered that residence.

25:07As well as three girlfriends, we discovered that he had two wives,

25:13and none of them knew anything about one another.

25:16They provided some valuable insights.

25:19He boasted, as well as being a migration agent, he was also a pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force.

25:29They were of the belief that he lived on base at the Air Force,

25:34and that's why he didn't come home every night.

25:38I've spoken to the Defence Force, confirmed that he had no involvement at all.

25:45He is an incredible liar who seemed to lie for no reason a lot of the time.

25:53When we executed search warrants on his office, we seized six phones, two laptops and a hard drive computer.

26:05There was thousands of images and videos.

26:11The images alone, 1,949 and 232 videos.

26:19And I spent days combing through his computers and his phones to try and identify who they were.

26:30Our team was able to help Laurie with that, to take some of that burden,

26:33because it is a really onerous thing for investigators going through all of those images and all of those videos.

26:41That is a very big mental impost on one person.

26:46The worst thing for Laurie would be for him to go home each day feeling overwhelmed.

26:51But it's also important to make sure this person was held to account,

26:54because as investigators that is our focus.

27:00So, in total, I identified 15 women who were in those images.

27:06Ten of those provided statements to police and were willing to give evidence against Frank.

27:13In order for Laurie and his team to prosecute this medically and forensically complex case in court,

27:19the evidence needed to be watertight.

27:23We ended up using hair toxicology.

27:27When you're looking at offences that have occurred months to years prior,

27:32the drug is actually absorbed into the hair shaft through the follicle from the bloodstream.

27:39It's not perfect, but it's a really useful tool in a case like this where we had nothing else to

27:46go from.

27:47So, Laurie coordinated a hair clinic and he'd organised to have the victims come in.

27:54We had an appointment schedule, one after the other, and we took hair samples from each of the victims willing

28:00to participate.

28:05The good news is, while it was incredibly complicated,

28:09we were able to obtain what was required to assist Laurie and his team in compiling their brief of evidence

28:15for court.

28:24When I first met with Frank, it was for a job, office like receptionist job.

28:31I didn't work for him for a very long time.

28:47In the beginning, I trusted him, and I trusted him a lot because I was new to Australia.

28:52But after a certain period of time, I noticed he was, like, getting angry over very small things and even

29:03to his clients.

29:05At the end, I didn't hurt him at all.

29:07I was scared of Frank.

29:12I remember he offered me hot chocolate.

29:16I just drank the hot chocolate and I fell asleep.

29:25I woke up after, like, a very long time nap.

29:32I felt weak.

29:35Something was wrong.

29:38I went to the hospital, like, I was taken by ambulance, and they did do several checks.

29:48When police first told me that Frank has been dragging and assaulting people, I was not shocked.

29:55I was only shocked when police asked me to identify myself from a bunch of photos of the videos because

30:02there was a lot of photos and videos.

30:06I had to search in the police station for, like, one to two hours to identify myself.

30:13There was heaps of them.

30:16The police asked me to do the hair test.

30:20So, Detective Shanahan drove me to a test centre and they took samples of my hairs and they tested if

30:30there was any residue left in my system.

30:34Even after quite a long time, they still found something in my system.

30:41Looking back then, I believe Frank is a very calculated person.

30:48To be honest, I wish I'd never met him.

30:54A revealing insight into the true character of Frank Hu was discovered with his membership of a vile Chinese website.

31:04It was a fetish website in which there was images and videos of predominantly women who were unconscious, all in

31:15a state of undress, that were being sexually interfered with.

31:20Frank Hu had uploaded images and videos that he had taken himself in order to share with other users.

31:29One of the interesting posts was he spoke about the drugs and how to use them to offend against women.

31:37The amount you need to use and the life the drug has on the victim is he spoke about playtime.

31:46Use any more than this amount of drugs, it will give you this amount of playtime, any more than that

31:51is a waste of time.

31:52So I thought that was a good indicator of how he saw his victims.

31:57Did that shock you when you discovered that?

32:01It didn't shock me, but not because I'm unshockable, but because I do know that these offenders are incredibly depraved.

32:07And that there is actually a market for this, there is an audience online that are quite happy to watch

32:13this sort of revolting behaviour.

32:15Where are these other people and where do they live and who are they offending against?

32:20The chat rooms were not only being used to share conquests, but to educate others in how to do this.

32:29I just don't have words for the sort of human that, you know, he obviously is to have done this.

32:44At the committal proceeding there was only one victim called to give evidence.

32:49She did an amazing job.

32:51She was very firm under tough cross-examination,

32:58but she was really resolute as to what had happened.

33:03This victim had been offended against approximately 68 times

33:07and at no stage during any of those 68 occasions was she ever conscious.

33:15The evidence against Frank was very clear and honestly quite horrific.

33:21Was Frank Hu still saying he was not guilty?

33:25Yeah, so he was contesting all the charges that were put to him.

33:29He wanted to go to trial. He wanted to fight it.

33:34The fact that he eventually agreed to plead guilty was due to the efforts of the Office of Public Prosecutions

33:41and his own lawyer.

33:43His lawyer indicated that if a jury saw those images and videos, that they would convict him of war crimes.

33:53He pled guilty of multiple counts of rape, sexual assault, intentionally causing injury and recklessly causing serious injury.

34:11I don't believe that Frank Hu chose to plead guilty in any way to be kind to these victims.

34:20But more likely for him to receive a reduction in his sentence.

34:28The offender received at least a 30% discount on his sentence for pleading guilty.

34:46An immigration agent who used his position to drug and assault women has been sentenced to nearly 30 years behind

34:54bars.

34:55This is Frank Hu, guilty of preying on women.

34:59You surreptitiously administered dangerous drugs to the victims in order to incapacitate them, rendering them defenceless and vulnerable.

35:07Your conduct was cold, calculated and repetitive.

35:10He was handed a 29-year sentence and will need to serve at least another 18 years behind bars before

35:17becoming eligible for parole.

35:19The migration agent committed nearly 70 rapes and almost 20 sexual assaults.

35:24One woman ended up in intensive care after suffering a cardiac arrest.

35:31If Frank put a little bit more powder in her drink, she probably wouldn't survive.

35:40It's very lucky she's still alive.

35:44If I reported him earlier, if I had been more brave, the poor girl probably wouldn't need to suffer.

35:53That's part of the reason I don't particularly feel proud of myself.

36:00All of the victims, whether or not they participated in the criminal justice process or not, were just so brave

36:09in enduring what they did.

36:12I mean, they simply accepted a job.

36:17And they went to their first day of work.

36:22There was an element of trust Frank had over these women based upon his position as an older male, as

36:31a boss.

36:35They felt that they couldn't say no.

36:37He was in a similar position to an uncle or somebody who they felt like they had to do what

36:43they were told,

36:44even if it didn't feel right, which enabled him to continue his offending.

36:52It was the perfect crime because you have a victim who doesn't know that they've been a victim.

36:59A victim who has been administered, without their knowledge, a medication designed to cause amnesia.

37:08One of the most chilling factors for me as a doctor was seeing how many times the victims actually came

37:16to the attention of hospital emergency departments.

37:21And often they were brought in by the offender, who then would provide a narrative to the treating doctors and

37:30nurses for what had happened.

37:32Multiple victims attended very well known hospitals around Melbourne and regional Victoria.

37:38And not once was toxicology or a sexual offence even sort of queried.

37:45As a medical doctor, that was such an eye-opener for me.

37:49If there was a patient that was a bit unwell or a bit drowsy or, you know, and had a

37:53lovely boss there telling me, you know,

37:55well, she was sick at work, you know, would I have questioned it?

37:58You know, I probably wouldn't have.

38:01In the event that something just doesn't sit right with you, just think toxicology.

38:06Maybe the answer might be there.

38:11Dominique Pellico pretended he was a loving family man, when in fact, he was a sexual deviant.

38:18His victim was his unsuspecting wife, Giselle, who he repeatedly secretly drugged and then raped.

38:26But then Pellico also recruited more than 70 other men to join him.

38:37It is very similar to the Giselle Pellico case, where they were entitled to feel safe.

38:43They were with somebody who they trusted.

38:45This person chose to behave like this.

38:48This person chose to act in a criminal way.

38:50There's nothing these women have done to deserve this.

38:55Since this has occurred, we're hearing about other cases overseas.

39:02And I think that shows the frightening power of these drugs.

39:06So through global information sharing, drug facilitated sexual assault is just hitting a new level of sophistication.

39:15Taken in this case, someone having a cardiac arrest for it all to actually come to the surface.

39:26I'm so glad I took that call.

39:28I've never worked so hard in my life as I did for the months preparing all that information.

39:33I was pregnant at the time and you just think, you know, if that was my daughter overseas, you know,

39:39and something like this happened to her, you just hope that she managed to cross paths with a Laurie Shanahan.

39:47Both Laurie and I were somewhat junior in the hierarchy of things at the time and both grew significantly through

39:54this case.

39:55The dedication that he showed, which was just so infectious, is really one of the key things that led to

40:02such a satisfying outcome, I think, yeah.

40:05Could further charges be brought against Frank Hu?

40:09We do know that there's a lot of women who've been offended against, who were not able to be identified

40:14conclusively, who did not provide a statement, so whose matters weren't proceeded with at court.

40:20If people came forward now, we would absolutely take a statement from them and we would definitely consider further charges

40:28against Frank Hu.

40:30I'm proud that this person is not in the community.

40:36This was someone who was not going to stop offended against international students from China.

40:43It's not every day you charge a serial rapist and get a conviction of 29 years.

40:52I know he's got 29 years to be rehabilitated, but I think he'll need all 29.

40:59he's got—

41:21awesot

Australian Crime Stories: The Investigators (2023) - Season 3 Episode 4

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