The dating and hook-up app Grindr. (CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty)
A 21-year-old who tortured an elderly man he lured using Grindr will be released from prison after he was commended by an Australian judge as a “remarkable man”.
Charlie Michael Edward Caire will be released from prison on a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to a slew of offences, including aggravated assault, aggravated blackmail and false imprisonment. He was described by
ABC as throwing his hands up in the air with relief at the news.
An electric drill, a taser, a gaslighter, a pair of secateurs and a knife were among the “horrifying array of weaponry” that Caire used to torture his blindfolded victim in February 2020, prosecutors described.