The true evil of Adrian Bayley revealed

HE told his teenage victim he was “one of those bad guys".

Then he punched her in the face and brutally raped her.

“Jenna”, 18, was working on the streets of St Kilda to support a heroin addiction.

Bayley was to be just her third job on the street, but it turned out to be her last.

The attack left her riddled with shame and guilt, unreported to police until the day she recognised Bayley’s image on a Facebook page revealing him as Jill Meagher’s killer.

"Jenna" had never forgotten the man who brutalised her in the back of a red Mini in the spring of 2000.

His name up until a few months earlier had been Edwards.

It had been changed by deed poll to distance himself from his sordid past: Sex attacks on three young women that had seen him jailed for five years in 1991.

He served just 22 months and was released in 1993.

By the time he met "Jenna", Bayley had already embarked on another rape spree, in the St Kilda area.

The victims — there would be six including "Jenna" — were other girls just like her.

New to the streets, one of her first stops was to a support office for sex workers where she saw a noticeboard titled the “Ugly Mug Report”.

The board contained incidents of recent violence against sex workers and she picked up a pamphlet.

She was reading it as she walked along Grey St when approached by Bayley in his fire engine red two-door 1974 Mini. "You wanna make some money?" he asked.

"Jenna" got in the front passenger seat and they drove off.

“I can’t believe how many bad people there are out there," she remarked to Bayley as she browsed the pamphlet’s cautionary pages.

The next thing she felt was a sharp punch to the face.

"Do you know I’m one of those bad guys?"

He drove the terrified girl into a hidden laneway and parked so close to the fence that she could not open the door.

"Jenna" later told police she was trapped and froze in fear as Bayley reached for a stack of condoms from the glove box.

Bayley repeatedly raped her with frightful force and cruelly taunted her.

When a car pulled into the laneway she yelled for help and bashed on the windows.

Bayley went “ballistic", ramming all of his fingers down her throat until she could not breathe.

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The rape continued until he finally pulled her back into the front seat where he taunted her for a further 30 minutes before driving off.

Certain she was on the road to death, "Jenna" managed to escape the car and was driven to a nearby police station, but never made a report.

The teenager did not want her father to know she had been working as a prostitute.

She said she felt she was a junkie loser who got what she deserved.

Instead, "Jenna" returned days later to the St Kilda support office where she added a description of Bayley and his car to the notice board, noting its red colour and tan interior.

She moved on with her life as best she could, becoming a mother and telling few of her ordeal.

But by 2011 she was confident enough to confide in doctors and sought counselling.

When she saw Bayley’s photo on Facebook “it all added up" and she called Crime Stoppers.

She always knew that one day she would see her attacker’s face again.

Police spoke to her the next day and in February 2013 provided her with a photo board containing a photo of a young Bayley alongside 11 other men with similar features.

"Jenna" said photo number four "definitely looked like the offender".

She was right.

The brave victim reiterated her claims as her attacker looked on in court.

“You never forget someone who does that to you," she said. “If someone is about to kill you and you have so much fear in you, you never forget the guy.”

Bayley’s lawyer Saul Holt, SC, had argued the victim’s account was flawed because she had got the colour of the mini’s interior wrong — it was black — and it did not have a glovebox.

An expert in memory and identification told the jury that confidence was a poor indication of reliability when it came to facial recognition.

But the woman was adamant she would never forget Bayley and his evil eyes.

“I haven’t made any mistakes. I’m 120 per cent sure Adrian Bayley attacked me.

“I know he did," she told the court. “You never forget the face of someone who gave you so much terror and was going to take your life from you."

A jury of seven men and five women believed her.

In March, Bayley was back before the court for his second trial on charges of rape and false imprisonment.

The County Court heard his young victim “Carla” could also never forget the cold blue eyes of her tormentor.

The 25-year old was raped in the front seat of Bayley’s car after he picked her up off a St Kilda street in the early hours of April 5, 2012.

Little more than a month earlier, in February 2012, Bayley had walked free from the County Court at Geelong after pleading guilty to bashing a man outside a pub.

He was on parole at the time of the assault, and was given three months’ jail. But he appealed the length of the sentence and was allowed to walk free on bail, his parole not revoked.

Bayley had spent $400 at Kittens strip club in South Melbourne before he cruised the streets looking for prey the night he encountered "Carla".

Like his victim 12 years earlier, Bayley drove the unsuspecting woman down a narrow lane in Elwood and parked tightly along a distinctive vine-covered fence.

With "Carla" trapped inside, he pounced, jumping on top of his terrified victim and raping her.

During the ordeal, Bayley threatened and humiliated his victim, who pleaded for him to release her.

"Carla" told the court at trial she knew she was in trouble the moment Bayley stopped the car.

“He’s looked over and I knew I was in the shit," she said. "He was right in my face and looked at me with those eyes."

The terrified woman said Bayley mocked her as the rape continued over two agonising hours.

“I’ve kept you here for like two hours, don’t you have a spotter or a pimp watching?" he asked.

When she told him she didn’t, Bayley laughed.

“That’s silly," he said. “You’re a stupid girl."

When her cries for help were ignored, "Carla" tried yelling out “fire" instead.

“That’s when he started to get really rough," she said.

“I was pleading with him, saying ‘no, no, no. This can’t be happening’ … it was the worst moment of my life."

The court heard Bayley made her look into his eyes and kiss him.

“He was telling me I was beautiful, to kiss him," she said. “He was telling me I’m the best he’d ever had."

Brazenly, he removed his shirt, which revealed the distinctive tribal tattoo plastered along his left arm.

When "Carla" mentioned a name tattooed on his arm, Bayley became nervous.

“Are you gonna ID me from the tatts?” he asked.

She said no, but they were details she would not forget.

Bayley continued to talk to "Carla" while he raped her, confiding that he was a member at the Fenix gym — a detail later confirmed by police.

Eventually she lashed out, kicking and breaking the windscreen in Bayley’s white Holden Astra.

Detectives would later trace the repair to a Hoppers Crossing glazier.

“Oh shit, what have you done?" Bayley warned. “I was only raping you. You’ve cracked my windscreen."

The attack continued.

When Bayley stopped to relieve himself, "Carla" thought about running.

But she knew the hulking monster would chase her down.

In a stroke of luck, the desperate woman convinced Bayley to take her to a toilet at the nearby Balaclava Hotel where he waited outside in his car.

She waited for 20 minutes before daring to step back outside.

When she did, Bayley was waiting.

He asked her to get back in the car, but she refused and returned to the pub.

The court heard "Carla", who worked as a prostitute in St Kilda, first made contact with police on April 19, 2012 — two weeks after being attacked.

Left a wreck by what had happened, she was drunk and distressed when she went to the Narre Warren police station, ranting that they knew exactly who it was that raped her.

The female acting sergeant said the woman made no sense, but remembered she said her attacker could be identified by the tattoos on his arm.

When police tried to calm her down she pulled out a boxcutter and extended the blade.

“I need to know who he is because I want to kill him," "Carla" allegedly said before rushing out of the police station.

When police found her nearby she was sitting in the gutter and inconsolable.

When pushed for answers, all she would say was that she had been raped.

"I want to kill him," she said.

"Carla" was taken to hospital for treatment and did not contact Crime Stoppers until she saw the face of her attacker in a news report later that year.

The victim told the court she did not report the matter until then because she was upset with the way police treated her when she initially reported the rape.

"I got locked up in a psych ward and injected," she said. "I lost faith in Victoria Police."

Police did not hear from her again until Bayley was arrested over Ms Meagher’s murder.

On January 13, 2013, "Carla" gave police a detailed description of her attacker, noting the "wog tapper" shoes Bayley wore that night.

They were among the clothes police found at the Coburg home he shared with his ex-girlfriend.

A month later she picked him out on a police photo board.

"That’s the one there," she said.

Again Bayley’s lawyer argued his client was a victim of mistaken identity.

He said "Carla" had intentionally provided details she obtained on Bayley after his arrest over the murder of Ms Meagher.

"She’s jumped on the Adrian Bayley bandwagon," Mr Holt said.

He told the jury the evidence would lead them to come to a surprising conclusion.

"The devil is in the detail," he said.

Mr Holt argued "Carla’s” description of her attacker’s face being scarred from acne was based on a digital image another victim, a Dutch backpacker, helped create after her rape that July.

The image, which appeared in online news reports, was linked to the killer following his arrest over Ms Meagher.

In a bizarre scene at trial, Mr Holt asked the arresting officer, Sen-Constable Christine Stafford, to approach Bayley in the dock and closely look at his face.

On inspection, Sen-Constable Stafford conceded his face did not appear to be acne scarred, but later explained Bayley’s appearance changed with his fluctuating weight.

The court heard Bayley was 110kg at the time of the attack and boasted to his victim that he was using steroids.

Mr Holt maintained the victim was able to identify the name on Bayley’s left arm based on images she found of the killer online following his arrest.

However, such an image has never been found by Bayley’s legal team or the police.

Mr Holt also claimed Bayley had a 7cm wound on his head stitched-up by a doctor on the night he allegedly committed the crime.

But "Carla" made no mention of the cut in her description of Bayley to police.

The stony-faced Bayley showed little emotion through the trial until the appearance of his ex-girlfriend, who cannot be named.

Bayley became visibly upset during her testimony, crying with his head in his hands.

Court staff brought him over a box of tissues, which he used to wipe the tears from his face.

Bayley had been living with the woman in Coburg right up until police arrested him over Ms Meagher’s murder.

His then girlfriend had been in Fiji visiting family when Bayley raped his victim.

The 2001 Astra had been her car and she immediately noticed the broken windscreen on her return.

She said Bayley told her it had been damaged at work and the pair went together to the Hoppers Crossing repair shop to have it fixed.

She told the court when Bayley was arrested over the murder of Ms Meagher she packed up all his belongings and put them in the shed.

From the dock, Bayley wept.

The jury heard a powerful closing by Crown Prosecutor Peter Rose, who argued the victim had got too many details right to have made a mistake.

"It’s not a memory test," he said.

He claimed Bayley’s entire defence rested on a claim that the victim got her information from the media following his arrest over Ms Meagher.

He argued the 7cm wound on Bayley’s head could be easily missed, and noted Bayley’s own girlfriend was not asked about the cut during cross examination.

In the end, a jury of eight women and four men found him guilty.

The final case to be heard was that of a Dutch backpacker, "Anna", who had arrived in Australia three months before Bayley changed the course of her life in 2012.

Bayley’s defence had no doubt she had been raped, but denied Bayley was her attacker.

The court heard "Anna" had enjoyed a few pints with friends at the Elephant & Wheelbarrow Pub on Fitzroy St, St Kilda when she decided to walk home about 2.30am.

Bayley had been at the footy watching the Pies v Geelong game at the MCG with his now ex-girlfriend before heading to a pub for drinks.

Like the night he murdered Ms Meagher, Bayley got into an argument with his ex and she told him he could sleep elsewhere that night.

The court heard Bayley got in his dark-blue Statesman and travelled from his Coburg home to St Kilda.

As "Anna" walked gingerly along St Kilda Rd to the house she shared with 17 other backpackers, she noticed two cars parked along the road.

One had a door open and the man inside passed on an ominous warning: she was being followed.

Bayley offered to give her a ride home, and she believed his claim about being followed — he looked like a “normal” guy. She got in the car.

But he didn’t take her home.

Instead he drove "Anna" to a secluded spot behind nearby shops, and as he had done many times before, he parked between two fences trapping her inside.

“You can’t get out so you may as well have sex with me,” he told her.

The brave woman resisted, but Bayley was too strong.

He jumped on top of her and jammed his tongue in her mouth.

When she struggled he hit her in the face and grabbed her by the throat, covering her mouth so she could not scream.

“No one will hear you,” he taunted.

For the next 10 minutes he raped his helpless victim, taking her passport and hiding it beside the seats.

The court heard "Anna" believed she was going to die and came up with an agonising plan to escape.

She gave her attacker what he wanted and after snatching her passport back convinced the brute that her house would be a more appropriate place to continue.

She told the man she lived alone.

When he saw a light on outside her home he inquired again if anyone was there.

She said the light was always on and led him to the door.

As she opened the front door she ran for her life.

“Hey, come back,” he shouted as he took a few steps into the house.

It was only then the brazen rapist realised they were not alone and fled.

"Anna" immediately contacted police and provided a detailed description which allowed police artists to produce a digital image that looked remarkably like Bayley.

Sadly police did not link the complaint to the killer until after he had murdered Ms Meagher.

"Anna" told the jury Bayley had targeted her because she appeared drunk as she walked down the road.

She said she tried desperately to convince the rapist she was sober and fought to get away.

“I made it clear I didn’t want to do this,” she said.

But she soon found herself fighting for her life.

“He covered my mouth to stop me yelling,” she said. “I was really afraid he was going to choke me (to death). He was covering my mouth and the real threat was there.”

Like all of Bayley’s other victims, she identified his photo in a police photo book.

Phone records proved he was in the area and failed to respond to repeated text messages from his worried ex.

Bayley will be sentenced on May 27.

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