Johnathan Andrew Smallbon, a ‘sexual sadist' who lured a 25-year-old man into his Christchurch bedsit and attacked, gagged and sexually abused him, has been sentenced to an indefinite prison term. "I have no doubt that a finite term of imprisonment is not enough," Justice Graham Panckhurst said yesterday in the High Court at Christchurch, when he imposed a preventive detention sentence on Smallbon, reports the NZ Press Association. "In my view the only way to secure the protection of vulnerable boys and young men from you is by the imposition of preventive detention." Justice Panckhurst set a minimum non-parole period of eight years and indicated that 31-year-old Smallbon needed to undertake treatment for his sex offending if he ever wanted release. The target of his latest offending read his victim impact statement in court, telling the court he was worried that Smallbon would get a sentence that would eventually allow his release. "I believe he will do it again, and if he does the next person may not be as lucky as me, and be killed." Smallbon lured his 24-year-old victim into his bedsit on 30 December to help move a refrigerator, but then attacked him, threatened him with a knife, gagged him with a sock and tied him up, sexually abused him during the night, and again the next day while he remained captive for another five hours. He also strangled the victim enough to cause burst blood vessels in his eyes. Before he released him, he tried to befriend him, and then apparently waited for the police to arrive. When arrested, he quickly pleaded guilty to charges of abduction for the purpose of sexual violation, assault with a knife, threatening to kill and two counts of sexual violation. Justice Panckhurst said the offending had eerie similarities with Smallbon's offending against teenage boys in Australia where they had been abducted at knifepoint, subjected to sexual indecencies, and strangled. In the last case in Australia, Smallbon had driven his victim to the police station afterwards and had waited outside to be arrested. Reports from health assessors indicated Smallbon fitted the criteria for sexual sadism. He had been subject to recurrent sexual fantasies about the domination and control of his sexual victims. Enquiries by GayNZ.com suggest Smallbon is not known at bars or sex venues on the Christchurch gay scene. Ref: NZPA, GayNZ.com (m)