A 24-year-old male prostitute who subjected a respected Sydney high school teacher to a "cruel and degrading death" by binding and gagging him and leaving him to die, has been sentenced to 10 years' jail.
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During a sentencing hearing for Li today, it was revealed that Mr Craigie had picked up the younger man at a brothel, a practice he engaged in on a regular basis but kept hidden from all but a close group of friends.
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submissions to the court had shown Mr Craigie to be a man who "viewed sex as a commodity for which he was willing to pay" and was "particularly attracted to young Asian men".
"Whatever the impression he created at the school, among a close group of friends he was openly homosexual. He was regularly prepared to pay prostitutes for their services."