A man accused of deliberately trying to infect ten partners with HIV has said he believed he could cure himself by drinking urine.
Daryll Rowe, from Edinburgh, is accused of infecting partners he met on Grindr with HIV after allegedly “tampering with the condoms” during sex.
It’s claimed the 26-year-old tried to insist on unprotected sex with his partners, or sabotaged the condom during sex without the partner knowing.
He is charged with infecting five men with the virus and attempting to infect a further five between October 2015 and December 2016, all of which he denies.
Rowe repeatedly told jurors he could not remember conversations in which he was warned he was highly infectious, that he could be prosecuted for passing on the virus.
He also claimed to the court he believed being vegan and drinking his own urine would cure him of HIV, according to reports.
Prosecutor Caroline Carberry QC said his claim he thought alternative urine therapy was curing him was a “nonsense” to explain the “campaign” he embarked on to infect men with HIV.
Referring to drinking his own urine, he responded: “Why would I do it every single day if I thought it was nonsense?”
Ms Carberry replied: “Because you didn’t want to treat this infection, for whatever reason.”
He replied: ‘I wanted to cure it, I thought I was curing it.”
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