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Whitney Nolan and Andrew Simmons. Photo: Supplied.
It’s been marketed as a showpiece of inner city living following a glamorous makeover on TV’s The Block, but the glistening Melbourne tower dubbed ‘The Blocktagon’ has a terrifying and violent history that would-be buyers of Whitney Nolan and Andrew Simmons’ apartment should know.
When New Idea approached the couple to reveal that their space was the scene of a mutilation attack by self-proclaimed vampire Shane Chartres-Abbott in 2002, the pair denied they’d been told of this.
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However Donald Carrott, a former hotelier, was working on the night of the crime in 2002, when 28-year-old gigolo Shane Chartres-Abbott arrived at the hotel with a beautiful young woman shortly before midnight.
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When nobody checked out the next day, Donald went to check on the room and was confronted by a sickening scene.
'The naked, unconscious girl that I found lying in the shower covered in blood had been beaten so badly, she was unrecognisable,' said Donald.
Chartres-Abbott was later charged with two counts of rape and two counts of causing serious injury.
While Whitney and Andrew deny knowing their floor’s troubling and bloody history, Andrew confessed to New Idea that they have tried to cleanse their space of its dubious past.
‘If there is any bad blood in that hotel, it’s long gone,’ he insists.
'We had a bit of a seance, got rid of the bad energy and stuff, and now it looks beautiful.’
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