ShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleBBCA "dangerous" rapist who deliberately infected five young men and two boys aged 15 and 17 with HIV has been been handed a life sentence with a minimum jail term of 23 years.
Adam Hall, 43, wanted to inflict "pain and harm" on "vulnerable" men he targeted online or at bars in Newcastle between 2016 and 2023, the city's crown court heard.
Hall, from Washington near Sunderland, was found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm on seven victims, four of whom he raped.
The victims said they had been "violated" and left with lifelong conditions and trauma, while Judge Edward Bindloss said "selfish" Hall had taken their futures away.
Northumbria Police said more suspected victims had come forward since Hall was convicted, with another investigation ongoing.
Hall, who refused to leave his court cell for the sentencing hearing, had carried out a "campaign of rape" to "deliberately inflict HIV on the victims", prosecutor Kama Melly KC said.
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