AN alleged victim of a hairdresser who embarked on a “campaign” to infect other men with HIV told a court the 26-year-old threatened him for refusing unprotected sex.

Daryll Rowe is accused of demanding unprotected sex with several partners, claiming to be free of the virus, or of tampering with the condom when they insisted he used one.

One alleged victim, who was giving evidence at Lewes Crown Court yesterday, told of his first encounter with Rowe in Brighton.

Describing their first sexual encounter in a car, he said: “He asked for sex...and I said no and he started to get angry...he was saying, ‘You need to if we’re going to be together. I need someone who’s spontaneous’.

“I was saying, ‘I don’t really want to do it. It’s horrible to do it in a car in the middle of nowhere’. I was getting angry. It was horrible really – I just felt like I had to do it.”

He said he later agreed to unprotected sex but stopped when a cyclist rode past the car. The jury was told that when the complainant refused to continue, Rowe told him: “You’ve wasted my evening, I can’t believe this.”

Rowe refused to get out of the car and instead tried to bully him into having sex behind some bins, the jury heard.

The alleged victim said: “It felt like an hour with him just going on and on. I felt very vulnerable.”

He said he believed Rowe was about to attack him, adding: “I was thinking this is all going to happen and I’m going to have to go to work tomorrow and explain a black eye.”

When he refused to meet again, he received a series of abusive text messages, including one saying, “You’ve got an ugly weird face”, the jury heard.

He said he later received a text telling him Rowe was HIV positive. The alleged victim was diagnosed a short time after.

Following his diagnosis, the complainant received a message from Rowe asking him if he was infected yet. The complainant replied: “All clear. Thanks.”

Breaking down in tears, he told the court: “I didn’t want him to know what he had done to me. I didn’t want him to feel like he had won.”

Rowe replied to his text: “Give it a few months. Dormant.”

Rowe, from Edinburgh, denies four charges of grievous bodily harm with intent and six charges of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent.

The trial continues.

An alleged victim of a hairdresser accused of deliberately infecting his lovers with HIV received a text from him saying: “I have HIV. LOL”, a court has heard.

Daryll Rowe, 26, is accused of demanding unprotected sex with his partners, claiming to be free of the virus, or of tampering with the condom when they insisted he used one.

He later sent them mocking text messages telling them he was HIV positive and that they could be at risk, Lewes Crown Court heard.

His first alleged victim received a text saying: “Maybe you have the fever. I came inside you and I have HIV LOL. Oops!”

Rowe, who is originally from Edinburgh, is charged with infecting four men with the virus and of attempting to infect a further six between October 2015 and December 2016.

He was living and working in the Brighton area at the time of the first eight alleged offences, before fleeing to the North East while he was under investigation, where he allegedly tried to infect two more men.

Rowe met the first complainant on gay dating app Grindr in October 2015, telling him he had only just moved to the Brighton area and did not know anyone.

Rowe had been diagnosed with HIV while he was still living in Edinburgh in April 2015 after a sexual health clinic contacted him to tell him a former partner was infected.

Doctors found he was “coping well” with his diagnosis but were concerned when he refused vaccination for common illnesses HIV positive patients are susceptible to, such as pneumonia.

They were also worried when he refused antiretroviral drugs to slow the development of the virus and make him less contagious, jurors heard.

The court heard that the four men Rowe is accused of infecting with HIV all had very similar strains to the one Rowe was infected with, making it highly likely that he was the source of the virus.

After his diagnosis, the complainant received a message from Rowe asking him if he was infected yet.

The complainant replied: “All clear. Thanks.”

Breaking down in tears, the alleged victim told the court: “I didn’t want him to know what he had done to me. I didn’t want him to feel like he had won.”

Rowe then replied: “Give it a few months. Dormant.”

The complainant responded: “I asked the nurse. She said if I don’t have it now then I won’t get it.

“How have you been? Were you scared when you found out? It was scary waiting for the results so I couldn’t imagine actually having it, so I hope you’re OK.”

Rowe messaged back: “Not even been three months. Don’t break out the party just yet. Loser. Ha ha.”

The alleged victim was granted the right to give evidence from behind a curtain to spare him having to face Rowe in court.

The second complainant, an American man, also described Rowe as aggressive in demanding unprotected sex.

At one point the witness said he was forced to push Rowe off because he was attempting to have sex without a condom.

Rowe later boasted in a text that he had ripped the condom, the court heard.

In his taped police interview, the witness said: “He started getting weird and that’s when all the abusive messages started to happen.

“Things like, ‘I ripped the condom you stupid American’, and that kind of thing.

“When I blocked him on Grindr and WhatsApp he started calling me constantly, constantly, constantly.

“Then I blocked him on my phone and I got a call that was No Caller ID and I answered and it was him.

“He said, ‘You can’t block me. I ripped the condom, I hope you get it. Burn’.

“I was like, ‘Why would you say something like that?’ He was laughing the whole time.”

Another message read: “You’re such a stupid American. Ha ha. I ripped the condom.”

The complainant said: “It was like he was proud of saying it.”

A few months later the alleged victim was diagnosed as HIV positive.

He said he started to become anxious because Rowe knew where he lived and he thought he might try and harm him.

He said Rowe never said he had HIV, but kept saying “I have ‘it’. I hope you get it”.

The complainant said Rowe had told him very little about himself, only that he was vegan and was from Edinburgh.

He said he went to police after a sexual health nurse said there had been similar reports of a Scottish man deliberately infecting his partners with HIV.

The trial, which is expected to last six weeks, continues.