A man deliberately tried to infect ten sexual partners with HIV by sabotaging condoms, a court has heard.
Daryll Rowe, from Edinburgh, is accused of infecting partners he met on Grindr with HIV after allegedly “tampering with the condoms” during sex.
It’s claimed the 26-year-old insisted on unprotected sex with his partners, claiming to be free of the virus, then tampered with the condom when they insisted he used them.
A court was told that he later sent mocking text messages telling his partners he was HIV positive and that they could be at risk, Lewes crown court was told.
One received a text saying: “Maybe you have the fever. I came inside you and I have HIV LOL. Oops!”
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Rowe is charged with infecting four men with the virus and attempting to infect a further six between October 2015 and December 2016.
Rowe, who is HIV-positive, denies all the charges against him.
Intentionally infecting someone with HIV is classified as GBH, and can be punishable with up to life imprisonment.
If an HIV-positive person is receiving treatment and the virus is at ‘undetectable’ levels in their system, then they cannot pass HIV on to others.
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