Porn king admits torturing thieves
 

A wealthy pornographic website master tortured two burglars and then dumped them at a police beat office, a court was told today.

Scott Gregory Phillips, 31, pleaded guilty in the District Court in Brisbane to one count each of torture and robbery of Daryl Jay Irwin, and causing grievous bodily harm to, and entering the dwelling of, Daniel George Atkinson, all on January 21, 2002.

At the time of his arrest Phillips had a million-dollar company, Internet Billing Services, and operated a porn site, pinkbits.com.

When Phillips was bailed on a surety of $20,000 in 2002, the man who put up the money was Gregory Shiraz Lasrado, himself a wealthy porn king at the time, but now facing a heroin possession charge.

Prosecutor Todd Fuller told Phillips's sentencing hearing today that Irwin and Atkinson had broken into Phillips's Mount Nebo home in late December 2001, and stolen various items including cheque books.

Mr Fuller said Irwin was a friend of a former business associate of Phillips and had committed the burglary to steal property which might or might not have belonged to his friend.

Phillips tracked Irwin down and, armed with a knife, abducted him from his workplace at a Coles supermarket in Sunnybank on Brisbane's southside.

Phillips then took him to his Mount Nebo home, tied him to a chair, with tape, rope and a belt.

"He then placed a plastic shopping bag over his head and held his nose to stop him breathing," Mr Fuller said.

Phillips also bashed Irwin around the head and knees with a bat and punched and threatened him during an interrogation where he forced him to give details about his family.

Phillips then drove Irwin to his office at Milton and forced him to lure Atkinson there on the phone.

He attacked Atkinson with bolt cutters and repeatedly kicked and punched him, forcing him to sign over his motorcycle.

Phillips ransacked Atkinson's home, taking items to offset his losses and took the pair to a Cash Converters store to try to retrieve some of his pawned stolen goods.

He then dumped them at a police beat at Sunnybank, giving his details with an officer before leaving.

The sentencing hearing before Judge Warren Howell was adjourned to resume on April 28 and Phillips, who did not apply for bail, was remanded in custody.


http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...521249534.html

Things that make you go Hmmmmmm.

Damn. I never knew any of them ... but now the nick name "australian porn mafia" seems all the more fitting.

Damn he shouldnt have taken them to the cops, thats his mistake

what the fuck

Ya, he should have let them go... I doubt they would have done much involving the police because of their past.

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Webmaster Scourn

Fucking Aussies :1orglaugh

Wow the aussies don't fuck around...

DH

Why the fuck would you do things like that if you have a business that is turning so much profit.

aussies know how to have a goodtime:thumbsup

I hate thieves... nice to see these guys have the balls to do exactly what everyone else would WANT to do ;)

down unda!!!!!!!!

Australia was once one big penal colony, remember?

lmfao. should have given them a damn good kicking and dumped them out in the bush 100 clicks from the nearest settlement....they wouldn't be trying to rob his house again in a hurry.

they're giving us a great name! ;)

hard times, that reminds me.. i better renew my membership to the APM

hahaha good ol Scott PB i remember having a beef with him way back... What a wanker ;-)

damm this is like mega ancient news...

< looking to make sure this isn't an old thread bump scratching head

Wow thats crazy. Any idea how much time he is facing?

that's how we party downunder ;)

His lawyers have dragged it out for near on 5 years.

Not sure how many of the original 28 charges he ended up pleading guilty on, but know that charges had been dropped to 14 at one stage.

There would of course been a deal, and for Scottie to elect NOT to apply for bail and stay on remand until sentencing means there is jail time involved.

No matter what you may think of the man, he remains one of the smartest ever to grace this business, and you can be sure such deal includes minimum time in a "holiday camp" prison farm.

I reckon 12-18 months tops in time served total at the prison farm inland from the gold coast.

:2 cents:

That's really wild stuff, over-the-top revenge

All jail time will for Scotty is more time for him to get to fuck people up inside. One of the baddest motherfuckers I know.

yeah old news about what happened, guess it takes a while to appear to court these days