Backpacker cut herself in despair over ordeal

A Dutch backpacker held captive by a Melbourne man who brutally raped and assaulted her pleaded to be allowed to die on the last day of her ordeal.

As the 21-year-old victim cut herself in the hotel room she felt she could not leave, Alfio Anthony Granata panicked and called an ambulance, bringing to an end six weeks of violent abuse.

The victim sustained 54 separate injuries as a result of the prolonged attack in November and December 2012.