Police have revealed they were investigating allegations of drug rape against Glenn Mills when he died in prison. Previously referred to the ‘the HIV predator', a 40-year-old man who was allegedly knowingly exposing men and women to the virus, Mills' name suppression was eventually dropped in June 2009 and the media was able to publish his name and pictures of him. As the news filtered out, there was a flood of calls in to police and HIV support groups like Body Positive. Suspecting such an influx, the police investigation team set up a special 0800 number. One of the calls Detective Sergeant Andy King took was from a tearful man, who told him he was driving from a lower North Island town to Wellington to get an urgent HIV test. "He didn't know what to do. He was beside himself," the detective says. "His words to me were that he didn't want to make a complaint, but he wanted me to be aware that not only was Glenn infecting others with HIV, but also that he was responsible for drug rapes as well.” The man claimed he was drugged and raped by Mills over a period of several hours, and told the detective he suffered anal bleeding for five days afterwards. The man arrived in Wellington and the detective's conversation with him ended. Not long afterwards Detective Sergeant King received a call from Wellington Central police saying a man had just walked in to say he had been drug-raped by Mills. "I said, yeah I know I've just been speaking to him, and we worked out the names and it turned out to be a totally different person. This other person was in a very similar type situation, said that he had met Glenn in a bar in Wellington and they had gone home together, he had been given a drink and felt the same symptoms and had been put into a bed and been raped by Glenn for a number of hours over the night." Both men made complaints to police, with the first driving from Wellington to Auckland overnight with a friend to do so. "Those investigations were underway at the time of Glenn's death," Detective Sergeant King says.
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First published: Sunday, 4th September 2011 - 2:16pm