3 Airbnb Hosts Beat Their Their Guest to Death for $210

They also wanted the police to support their actions.

Shenbaga Lakshmi
6 min readMay 10, 2022
Photo by Asiama Junior from Pexels

In the quaint little neighborhood of East Brighton, Melbourne, three friends lived together.

Craig Levy was a 36-year-old chef. He was a loner who spent most of his time at the restaurant or at home.

Jason Colton was a 42-year-old guy. In his 20s, he moved to Norway with his girlfriend. But something changed, and he suddenly became an angry, violent person. He was arrested four times, spent five months in prison, and deported to Australia.

Ryan Smart was a 37-year-old roommate of these two guys. He had a pretty rough childhood and had to fend for himself.

This wild group of friends rented a 4-bedroom house together. It almost always had alcohol, drugs, criminal activities, and police around.

And in such a setup, the men decided to earn some cash by inviting people to stay with them.

[Trigger warning: Extreme violence]

Ramis Jonuzi

The men listed their extra room on Airbnb for a meager amount of about AUD$30 (~US$21) a night. And since it was so cheap, the room quickly booked out.

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Shenbaga Lakshmi

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