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Student tells of Lloyd sex ordeal
By Hedley Thomas
May 1, 2004

SHORTLY after midnight on May 1, 2002, a South Korean teenager considered jumping to her death from a college high-rise building in Brisbane.

Instead, she walked into the Upper Mount Gravatt police station to make a most serious allegation to two detectives working the graveyard shift.

Kim said in broken English that a leading Queensland businessman had forcibly begun a sexual relationship with her, which she had neither sought nor encouraged.

According to material obtained by The Courier-Mail, the day after the alleged relationship began, the businessman arranged for a full scholarship and credit of her college fees.

The man Kim accused was Keith Lloyd, 66-year-old multimillionaire, friend to the rich, famous and infamous (including Alan Bond and Christopher Skase) and founder, owner and president of Shafston International College at Kangaroo Point.

Kim, who told police that she was a 19-year-old virgin before meeting Mr Lloyd, was at Shafston for lectures in international business and to improve her English.

She recalled a number of details about April 16, 2002 � even the colour of the knee-length skirt, shoes and underwear she was wearing.

It was the day, she told police, that she went to Shafston to learn and left confused, distressed and having difficulty walking because of the pain between her legs.

Shafston has been a profitable investment for Mr Lloyd and a significant boost to Queensland's economy thanks to the thousands of overseas students who stream through the college, which is affiliated with the University of New England.

Kim was one of those students. She told detectives that as she came out of the library on April 16, she noticed a man with a file in his hand. Mr Lloyd, she told police, approached her and said things like, "How are you darling?"

"I told Keith that I was trying to cope with my studying and that I was having trouble after taking last year off study," Kim said. "He told me that I was doing very well and that I was smart. Keith then asked me to come up to his room, to show me around."

She alleged that a sexual encounter occurred after she was pushed on to a sofa. She had tried to resist by "screaming at Keith to stop". Nevertheless, she said she agreed to Mr Lloyd's invitation to go to lunch. They enjoyed salmon and a cappuccino.

The next day, April 17, 2002, according to computer printouts from the college's database, a change was made to documentation relevant to Kim's tuition at Shafston.


The document says: "Awarded full scholarship � KL. Fees credited."

In the days that followed, according to the statement Kim gave to police, she wanted to believe that the man with whom she'd had her first sexual experience loved her.

"I wanted to believe what Keith was telling me as he told me that he loved me."

They subsequently had consensual sex. She also told police she stayed overnight in his penthouse atop Shafston. She drove him, in one of his luxury cars, to his apartment in the Versace complex on the Gold Coast.

Kim said she wanted to tell her family of their relationship, but "Keith said I could not and that he would contact them and tell them when the time was right".

But Kim told police that soon after, her repeated attempts to speak to Mr Lloyd or visit the penthouse were rebuffed. Finally, about 8pm on April 30, she said she spoke to Mr Lloyd and told him that she had "been kicked out of home and had nowhere to stay".

She told police that she had disclosed to her sister and her parents what had happened. Her parents had been "very upset and I couldn't talk to them".

According to Kim, when Mr Lloyd would not see her, his son, Bradley, told her to ring again in the morning. "I then told Brad that I was going to jump off the building and kill myself. I could not handle the situation and I was going a little crazy."

Kim told police: "The reason I did not go straight to the police was because he made me believe that he loved me and that I believed him. I felt that I had to love him because this had happened."

No charges were laid against Mr Lloyd after Kim's statement.

A sequel to her allegations was played out on TV screens after an investigation by Channel 9's A Current Affair involving concealed microphones and cameras. It showed Mr Lloyd pleading with another teenage student for sex, then imploring the girl, allegedly 16 when their tryst began, to keep it secret.

It left little to the imagination.

"Let me put my hand there," Mr Lloyd says to the Japanese girl as they sit in his son Bradley's Lexus in the car park of Indooroopilly Shoppingtown.

"You're a dirty man," she says. He says: "Let me, let me, let me."

"No, no, no, no no, no, no," she replies. He says: "Yeah, just inside your pants."

"Oh, no way!" she replies.

Some weeks later after Mr Lloyd realised that journalists from A Current Affair were investigating, he was taped telling her in a restaurant: "C'mon, I want to know exactly how do they know your age. It's legal after you're 16 so they've got nothing to go on.

"You can never, ever say I was your boyfriend or we had anything to do with one another. You must not say that, ever."

Unlike Kim, the Japanese girl and her friend tell police of their willingness to have sex with Mr Lloyd in return for cash.

Mr Lloyd went overseas as the story broke. In a telephone interview with The Courier-Mail, he denied wrongdoing and said he had been set up and falsely accused.

"I deny all the claims . . . they've (the teenagers) destroyed my reputation," he said.

"I'll get it back. I'll come back fighting. I've got family, I've got grandchildren, I've got children, everyone's devastated."

Shafston's Governing Council, fearing enrolments could dry up, asked Sydney-based firm Hawker Britton to manage the crisis.

The councillors issued a no-nonsense statement which left no doubt about their collective view of Mr Lloyd's conduct. They said they were "appalled and devastated by the revelations on Nine regarding Mr Keith Lloyd's inappropriate relationships with several young women who were former students".

Mr Lloyd has resigned from all positions at Shafston. His two sons Bradley and Cameron, senior managers of the college until voluntarily standing aside two days ago, said in a statement on Thursday that "media revelations about our father have caused our family great hurt and distress.

"Of far greater importance, however, is the welfare of our students and staff".

Consulting firm, Deloitte, will review the college's operation. Rob O'Regan, QC, former Criminal Justice Commission chairman, has agreed to head a separate team for an operational audit.

After the Nine airing, Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson said he wanted a thorough review and to see if anything was missed during the investigation into Kim's allegations two years ago.

Kim remains in Queensland and is extremely fragile, an associate said. She says she wants to ensure others avoid her alleged experience.

The Courier-Mail


http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9437451%255E26462,00.html