Bag courier stole pubic hair
March 02, 2007 12:06pm
Article from: AAP
A DEVIANT Melbourne airline baggage courier who stole pubic and head hair from underwear and brushes in women's luggage was jailed today for at least two years.
Rodney Lyle Petersen, 30, of Wallan, pleaded guilty to 50 counts of theft of women's hair.
The Victorian County Court was told Petersen would pull over in his courier van and rummage through lost or delayed luggage he was returning to Qantas passengers.
He collected the pubic and head hair from brushes and underwear in the baggage and put it in plastic slips then recorded the owners' personal details in an exercise book.
Petersen suffered from a range of sexual deviancies including fetishism, sexual sadism and frotteurism, an unusual condition in which sexual satisfaction is gained by actual or fantasised rubbing up against another person, the court was told.
Judge Jennifer Coate reinstated a previously suspended prison term Petersen received for a conviction for attempted rape in 2004.
He was sentenced to a maximum of two years and eight months, with a minimum parole period of two years.
"I am satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that you posed a real risk to the safety of women in the community," the judge said.