Paulette Chantal Limpers thought his roommate was the gold of a police officer when he tied it up with a pink ribbon, put a pillowcase over his head and put it in the trunk of a car in March 2018.
She and a companion took her 35-year-old victim to a deserted space in Berwick, southeast Melbourne, where he was tied to a board and Limpers filled a filthy sock in his mouth.
“Don’t worry, I’ve noticed all the CSI and I’ll get away with it,” Limpers said.
Before the kidnapping, Limper’s male partner and two other people beat the victim to explain what he had told the police.
The victim managed to let go after Limpers left the scene and helped the workers in the nearby structure. He left with purple eyes, “displaced” facial bones and other wounds.
The 32-year-old woman admitted kidnapping and a series of charges, adding thefts, car theft and burglaries in county court.
“It was an almost insatched offense … Equivalent to an annoying theft, the theft of many cars, and their habit at the time was obviously out of control,” Judge Liz Gaynor said Wednesday.
When police Limpers spoke about the kidnapping, they were told there were “legitimate reasons” for their victim to be beaten, adding that they had stolen it.
The month before the kidnapping, Limpers stole a $20,000 tie and entered a space where other people slept on the couch and stole a credit card bag.
He used it to spend more than $600 on nail salons, shoes and clothes.
The limpers also stole a Jeep, laptop, phone and other parts a robbery, a $75,000 Mercedes sedan on some other and a Mitsubishi SUV in March.
His lawyer said Limpers was battling intellectual fitness and substance abuse problems, it was GHB every day at the time of the crime frenzy, but he was running to rehabilitate himself in custody.
The mother had also pleaded guilty from the outset and had obtained a combined sentence, said lawyer Hayley Bate.
Limpers has already spent 355 days withheld, counted as time served, and has been placed under a correctional order of the network of 3 and a half years.