A NIGHTMARE roommate drugged and beaten his roommate to death with a hammer in an attempt not to pay him back the money he borrowed.
Shocked Harry Sumantri woke up in a dark room and was beaten repeatedly by his friend Kevin Arden, a court heard.
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Harry, who worked as a chef, loaned his roommate Kevin £29,000 to invest in a company that sells hand sanitizers in Indonesia during Covid.
But as the agreed deadline approached, he demanded a refund, prompting Arden to launch the attack. news.com.au reports.
Arden appeared in court at the Downing Center in Sydney awaiting sentencing for the 2020 attack.
Arden first offered his friend a drink fortified with doxylamine, an over-the-counter sleeping pill, which made him sleepy and sent him to bed around 4 p.m.
Harry described in poignant detail the sickening moment he woke up after being repeatedly hit with a hammer by his friend.
He described how the attack affected him in an emotional victim statement.
“It took me a long time to fall asleep because it reminded me of what happened,” he said.
“He’s a dangerous person because he planned to kill me, which is not a human thing to do.”
His ordeal finally came to an end when one of their housemates broke into the room.
He suffered fractures to his head, a broken left hand and cuts and scrapes during the attack, which forced him to stop working for 12 months and eventually ran out of savings.
The court was also told that “significant amounts” of blood had been found sprayed over the wall where the attack took place.
The jury rejected Arden’s claim that Sumantri had started the fight.
Arden will be sentenced next month by Judge Huggett.