HIV : He deliberately infects her partners Grindr

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Published the 07.10.2017 at 17h28

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It is a trial full of emotion that opened in the coastal town of Brighton, in the south of England, this week.

Darryl Rowe, a young hairdresser of 26 years, is accused of deliberately transmitting HIV to partners met via the application of dating for gay men, Grindr.

According to the information of the british newspaper The Guardian, he would thus have concealed his hiv status to his conquests. Later, he would have written to reveal the truth, by mocking them.

From Edinburgh to Brighton

A native of Edinburgh, Rowe is found to have infected four men with the virus, but also for having attempted to infect the other six, between October 2015 and December 2016. The young man denies the facts.

Called to testify, his doctors explain that when they had him announced that he was hiv positive in April 2015, Rowe had seemed to accept the diagnosis.

However, the medical team had expressed his concern when he had refused to be vaccinated against several diseases that affect HIV-infected individuals disproportionately, such as pneumonia.

At the same time, during a discussion with his doctors, Rowe had assured him that he would not have any more unprotected sex, to prevent transmission of the virus, but it was subsequently never presented to his medical appointments. The team had lost its trace.

During the trial, his movements starting in the spring of 2015 will be traced. It already seems that Rowe would have moved to Brighton shortly after his diagnosis, and started to use Grindr to meet men living in the region.

For the prosecutor, it is obvious that this is premeditated, and that Rowe was deliberately infected his partners. This is what he will attempt to prove throughout the trial, expected to last six weeks.