Daryll Rowe targeted people on Grindr, then sent sinister text messages to his victims after sleeping with them Leon Neal/Getty ImagesVictims of a hairdresser who has become the first person to be jailed for deliberately spreading HIV say they had considered suicide. Daryll Rowe, 27, who targeted people on a gay dating app, was given a life sentence for infecting at least five lovers and exposing five others to the virus by refusing to wear condoms or tearing them. Rowe, who will serve a minimum of 12 years, then taunted his victims with texts such as: “Maybe you have the fever coz . I have HIV LOL” and “burn . One victim, whose parents both died of Aids, said that he had attempted to overdose with sleeping tablets prescribed to help him handle the side-effects of his HIV…

Source: The Times April 18, 2018 16:03 UTC