Overview
- Xu was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court after pleading guilty to 24 offences, including rape, assault by penetration, sexual assault, voyeurism, administering a substance with intent, and upskirting.
- Judge Christopher Grout called him an "incredibly dangerous man" and ordered that he be placed on the sex offenders register for life.
- Police say he spiked women with a cocktail he called the "Spring of Life," with forensic tests detecting GHB and scopolamine, and used covert cameras hidden in items such as an air freshener and sanitary products.
- He was arrested on 1 June after a woman reported being drugged and assaulted at a networking event at his Greenwich flat, where officers arrived within minutes and seized devices containing thousands of images and videos.
- The Met believes there may be hundreds more victims in the UK and China, has logged 11 additional reports since August, and has opened English, Mandarin and Cantonese reporting portals as part of a large-scale digital forensic review that includes six million WeChat messages.