Boy's 7 days of 'sexual horror'

A 14-year-old boy was held captive by a man who chained him up in a wardrobe and abused him during seven days of perverted sex, says the police officer heading the case.

It was only when the boy was able to make a furtive telephone call to his home that police came to the rescue.

In the High Court at Auckland last week, Ivan Andrew Campbell, aged 35, of Beach Haven, pleaded guilty to representative charges of kidnap, assault, assault with a weapon and sexual violation of the boy over seven days at the end of August and beginning of September last year.

Campbell, represented by Chris Tennet, also pleaded guilty to representative charges of violating a 13-year-old boy in 1991 in a similar manner.

The officer in charge of the case, Detective Constable Adam Lough, of Takapuna, described Campbell as a "calculating, manipulative sexual deviant who preys on teenage boys from single-parent families."

In 1996 Campbell was jailed in Australia for nine years for arson attacks on a Salvation Army hostel for homeless men and the "devastation" of the business centre of Beaudesert, southwest of Brisbane.

Twelve years earlier a false advertisement in the Herald claimed that Campbell had been killed in a car crash four days earlier - an apparent attempt to fake his own death.

According to the police summary, Campbell told the 14-year-old he had nominated him for the Hell's Angels, and the boy would have to disappear for three months to earn his patch.

At Campbell's home the boy was plied with alcohol and shown videos.

The police summary alleges Campbell then made the boy perform oral sex before sodomising him.

He pierced the boy's scrotum and inserted two rings.

The following day, after buying more alcohol, Campbell allegedly made the complainant take his clothes off before tattooing around his groin with a home tattoo gun.

According to the summary, he then restrained the boy in a wardrobe, using shackles and chains, and beat him.

Once the beating was over, he is alleged to have poured hot wax over the victim's body. Campbell released the boy from the chains an hour later, only to sodomise him again.

The following day the boy was tied on the bed with chains and rolled on his stomach while Campbell held a hot branding instrument against his lower back, causing second-degree burns.

Over the following days there were further beatings and degradations.

Finally on September 2, the boy was able to call home while Campbell was outside the house.

Justice Tony Randerson remanded Campbell in custody for sentencing next month. The Crown was represented by Philip Hamlin.