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An Australian baggage courier has been jailed by a Melbourne judge for at least two years for stealing women’s hair from their suitcases.
Rodney Lyle Petersen, 30, of Wallan, pleaded guilty to 50 counts of theft of women’s hair that he collected from the baggage of Qantas passengers.
Petersen would apparently pull over in his courier van and rummage through the lost or delayed luggage that he was returning to Qantas passengers.
He collected the pubic and head hair from brushes and underwear in the suitcases, put them in plastic covers, and recorded the owner’s personal details in a note book.
Petersen had a previous suspended prison term after an attempted rape conviction in 2004. The thefts began three days before he began his weekly attendance at a court-ordered sex offenders program and ended just 10 days before he finished the treatment.
The court heard that Petersen was driven by a range of deviant desires including sexual sadism, fetishism, and frotteurism - an unusual condition in which sexual satisfaction is gained by actual or fantasised rubbing up against another person.
Petersen told doctors he knew what he was doing was wrong but his collection made him feel “in some way close to the women”.
The judge sentenced him to a maximum of two years and eight months, with a minimum parole period of two years, for the theft charges as well as previous convictions for assault with attempt to rape, recklessly causing injury and robbery.
He has also been included on the sex offenders register, requiring him to report to the authorities for the rest of his life.
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