Sü was arrested by the London police in June, when the woman he drugged and raped called the police from his apartment. During a house search, she found countless hidden cameras. On his mobile phone, he had recordings of rape or footage taken when he shoved the mobile phone under the skirts of women on the escalators in the subway, reports The Guardian.
In August, the Chinese businessman confessed to 24 crimes committed against six women. These were four rapes, eight sexual assaults with penetration, four sexual assaults, two druggings, four cases of voyeurism and two cases of upskirt filming.
Later, more than ten other victims of voyeurism reported to the police, and according to the London police, there could be hundreds of similar victims.
Cocktail Spring of Life
From the London court, Sü received a sentence of life imprisonment, while he will be able to apply for parole after thirteen years at the earliest. As a citizen of a foreign country, the British Home Office could decide to deport him. The oldest of the crimes for which Sü was convicted was committed in 2021, but the police assume that he committed similar acts before coming to Britain, where he traveled to study in 2013.
Sü attacked his victims systematically. Invite them to your home for parties or networking events. During those, he served a cocktail that he called the “Fountain of Life”. It was a mixture of Chinese herbs and alcohol, to which he added GHB and scopolamine to his victims.
One of his victims is a doctoral student whom Sü raped for hours and who stated in her court testimony that under the influence of the mentioned drugs she felt everything he did to her, but could not defend herself. “He stole the person I was. He changed me. I feel like I can never go back to who I was,” she said in her statement, which also said she has trouble sleeping because of her fear of being attacked again.
Young women of Chinese origin
According to the police, the businessman mainly chose young women of Chinese origin as victims, specifically students and graduates of the University of Greenwich, which he himself studied, and of London’s King’s College. Before the attack, he was generous towards them and offered them career advice. Two of the victims said they trusted him enough to consider him a brother.
