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Former One Nation staffer to be sentenced
Former One Nation media advisor Sean Black will be sentenced in Brisbane for the 2007 rape and assault of a woman.
July 26, 2018
Former One Nation media adviser Sean Black will be sentenced in Brisbane on Thursday for the 2007 rape and assault of a woman.
Black, a former staffer for ex-senator Malcolm Roberts, was found guilty of one count of rape and two counts of assault in the Brisbane District Court on July 13 following a four-day trial.
He’ll be sentenced in the same court.
Black, who did not apply for bail after he was found guilty, violently attacked the woman before raping and threatening to kill her by shooting her in the head in late-October 2007.
Black also slammed a door on the woman’s fingers and mocked her a few days later after noticing bruises on her body.
A month after the attack, the victim said she approached Black about the assaults and he hit her in the stomach before smashing her phone.
In an earlier assault in April 2007, Black tried to pull the woman down a staircase and repeatedly called her a “filthy dog”.