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The man was on trial at Christchurch District Court. Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon
The trial of a man accused of trying to blackmail a Canterbury-based public figure has been aborted.
The pair, who both possess name suppression, met on dating app Grindr and later had sex.
On Wednesday afternoon, Judge Jim Large told the jury at Christchurch District Court a legal issue has arisen and a mistrial declared as a result.
The reasons for the mistrial have been suppressed.
The trial began on Tuesday, with Crown lawyer Sean Mallett saying prior to the pair having sex, the defendant had mentioned being rewarded for the encounter, but they had not agreed on an amount or method of payment.
The pair exchanged messages after the encounter about the amount of money.
However, when no payment had been made by the next day, the defendant went to the complainant's house and put up a cardboard sign demanding payment, and saying a lack of payment would equate to sexual assault, Mallett said.
Later that day, the complainant paid the other man $
After that, the pair continued to exchange messages
By Jason Om, ABC
Grindr is one of the apps being used because users can be relatively anonymous. Photo: Martin Bureau / AFP
Warning: This story contains content some may find disturbing.
Josh is lying on a footpath, curled up into a ball, his head covered with his hands as three men lay into him with metal bars.
"Am I going to make it out of here alive?" he remembered thinking.
"What's going to happen?"
He managed to obtain up but stumbled a few times after receiving blows to his head.
The men were laughing at him. One of them was filming.
"They were calling me a paedophile," Josh, whose label has been changed to protect his identity, told ABC's .
Josh was so badly beaten that he almost ended up in intensive care.
"Apparently, I had lost so much blood that my blood pressure had dropped so deep (in pitch) they were considering taking me to ICU."
It was spring in Melbourne's bayside suburbs.
Josh's Saturday noun had turned into the early hours of Sunday morning. Like many men on the hook-up app Grindr, he'd been "looking".
Josh, now in his 30s, has used Grindr since he was
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Rob Tennent, a final year fashion student in Auckland, New Zealand, was doomscrolling through Grindr one lockdown afternoon when, suddenly, he found himself dazzled by a guy in a skin-tight singlet. “I just thought ‘oh my god – yes’,” he says, recalling the encounter. So, the year-old decided to pluck up the courage and send a message. “Where did you get that vest?” Tennent asked. Minutes passed. “Helmut Lang” the mystery profile replied. And then, as is the case with most Grindr chats, the conversation went not one single message further. It didn’t matter though, because Tennent had already struck lucky.
The conversation (or lack thereof) with this vested torso became the basis for Tennent’s graduate exhibit, which, for one day only, transformed the hook-up app into a shop front featuring his six-piece collection of high-stretch, scooped-out singlets. It came as New Zealand entered its third and final lockdown, which for obvious reasons, had put a splint in Tennent’s original plans for a graduate presentat