A Cambridge man has been arrested after allegedly sexually assaulting two women in the female locker room of a gym on Thursday morning.

Cambridge Police said Laquan Holland, 40, allegedly entered the women’s locker room at the Planet Fitness on Massachusetts Avenue at approximately 9 a.m.

Holland faces two counts of assault to rape, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, as well as one count each of kidnapping and witness intimidation, police confirmed.

Cambridge Police spokeswoman Jennie Lopez told the Daily Mail that Holland was arraigned in Cambridge District Court on October 2.

A not guilty plea was entered on his behalf. He was ordered held ahead of a hearing scheduled for October 16, NBC Boston reported.

When first responders reached the locker room, one gym member was taken to a hospital for evaluation. Holland was subsequently arrested at the scene.

Prosecutors reportedly told the court that police interviewed both women at the Planet Fitness facility.

The first woman told police that Holland allegedly struck her several times and touched her inappropriately without her consent. She also said he partially removed her clothing and restrained her inside one of the gym’s rooms.

The second woman allegedly heard the first victim calling for help and saw the two people partially nude before trying to intervene. She told police that Holland then touched her without consent and tried to make her touch his body.

One Planet Fitness customer said news of the alleged locker room assault has made her feel she must be more vigilant while using the facility.

‘I’ve always felt safe. Now that I’ve heard that this has happened, I’ll definitely have to look behind my back,’ Dr Yena Do, a Planet Fitness customer, told CBS News.

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‘Which is not a great feeling. I’m going there to work out, undressing out of my scrubs and get into my workout clothes. I’m definitely going to think about that,’ she said.

The Planet Fitness location was on the bottom floor of Lesley University Hall, which also housed other private businesses open and accessible to members of the public.

‘It’s horrible. I feel like it’s a big tragedy. Everyone should be able to feel safe and secure wherever they are,’ Sophia Holloway, a Lesley University student, told the outlet.

‘Women out here face such hardships, and I think that the world needs to know that it’s not OK,’ she said.

Lesley University said the Planet Fitness incident involved a private business and did not involve any of the university’s students or staff members.

‘As an urban campus, Lesley University and our on campus public safety teamwork with Cambridge Police Department in supporting a safe environment for our students, staff and community in and around our building,’ a Lesley University spokesperson said in a statement.

Since the incident, Planet Fitness has stated that Holland’s gym membership was canceled. 

‘Planet Fitness is committed to providing a safe environment for all. The franchise group has canceled the membership of the individual involved and is working with local law enforcement to support their investigation into this matter,’ said a Planet Fitness statement. 

According to a Cambridge Police Department daily log report viewed by the Daily Mail, Holland was previously arrested on August 25 for failure to register as a sex offender.

It is unclear at this time if Holland has retained an attorney. 

The Daily Mail has reached out to a Planet Fitness spokesperson and Lesley University for comment.

Messages exchanged by Jesse Baird’s housemates reveal their frustration over his home habits, including watching Survivor shirtless on the lounge with his boyfriend, leaving toothpaste upside down and allegedly placing furniture on the footpath outside.

The women did not know at the time that Baird, 26, and his partner, Luke Davies, 29, had allegedly been killed inside their shared home in Paddington, Sydney. The couple’s bodies were later found in surfboard bags in the rear courtyard.

The text exchanges between the two housemates, who cannot be publicly identified and are referred to as Belinda Smith and Sarah King, were tendered in the NSW Supreme Court this week during Beau Lamarre-Condon’s double murder trial.

Lamarre-Condon, a former police officer, has pleaded not guilty to two domestic violence-related murder charges arising from the alleged shooting deaths of Baird and Davies on February 19, 2024.

He has also denied an aggravated break-and-enter charge relating to an alleged August 2023 incident in which he entered the Paddington property and stole Baird’s phone and wallet.

The messages between Smith and King were sent from January 29 to February 21, 2024.

The court heard that Baird became “upset” after being asked to leave the property on January 26, telling his housemates: “I deserve better than this.”

Smith told the court the request was driven by concerns about cleanliness, although that was not explained directly to Baird. Instead, the housemates told him they wanted a female friend to move into the home.

In a message sent on January 26, Smith referred to someone Baird had invited to the Paddington terrace, writing: “Omg he has someone over. On the couch.”

Baird was again the subject of discussion on February 6, when Smith messaged: “They’ve plugged back in the TV lol.”

King responded: “Stop it!!!!!”

Smith then added: “And taken everything off the couch. Topless again. On the couch watching Survivor.”

The evening before the alleged killings, on February 18, King wrote: “I need to text tonight.”

Smith replied: “Cool. I just got screened. He walked through the living room to get outside not through the kitchen cos I was standing there hahaha.

“Then proceeds to bring [SIC] mans over 30 minutes later.”

King answered with a long string of laughter: “Hahahahahhahahahahhaha.”

Smith told the court that “screened” meant Baird had ignored her, while “bring mans over” referred to him inviting a male guest to the property.

On the morning of February 19, at the time of the alleged murders, Ms Smith said: ‘Mans using my toothpaste.’

Ms King said: ‘Excuse me.’

Ms Smith continued: ‘It was upside down in my jar.’

As though telling Baird she knew he used her toothpaste, she wrote: ‘I SEE YOU.’

This text exchange took place between 7.40am and 9.48am, by which time they’d both left for work. The court heard Baird and Davies were allegedly killed between about 9.30am and 10am that morning.

Ms Smith told the court this week that she had spent the night of February 18 cleaning the house for their new housemate, who was supposed to arrive after Baird moved out on February 20. She had washed the cushion covers and hung them outside to dry.

When she got home from work on February 19, the clothes rack was pushed up against the back door, and the pillowcases were covered in dirt.

She texted Ms King, saying: ‘I don’t know what he’s done but it looks like the cushion covers were dragged through the [f***ing] mud. Rewashing them all now.’

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Ms Smith told the court she assumed Baird was responsible for the dirty washing.

She also took a photo of a pool of red liquid oozing from underneath surfboard bags and a blue tarp in the rear courtyard. She thought it was a pool of liquid rust from outdoor furniture and sent the photo to Ms King.

The court heard the red liquid was blood and the bodies of Baird and Davies were allegedly hidden in the surfboard bags, under the tarp. Ms Smith and Ms King had no idea.

Ms King replied to the photo, saying: ‘What the actual f***.’

By February 21, Ms Smith and Ms King were angry with Baird because they thought he’d left his possessions all over the house when he was supposed to have moved out a day earlier.

At that point, they had no way of knowing Baird was dead because they were still receiving texts from his number about his supposed plans to road trip to Perth and hire someone on Airtasker to remove the rest of his belongings.

At 6.45am that morning, Ms Smith texted Ms King, saying: ‘If you don’t want to undo his bed I reckon get an Airtasker in this morning and we slap him with a fat bill.;

‘Also do we say he needs to get his s**t out the front removed because the next council clean up isn’t until June… AND GIVE BACK YOUR KEYS.’

Further texts between the trio, released by the court, showed Ms King texted Baird at 6.56am – immediately after Ms Smith’s last message.

That message read: ‘Jesse, you will need to drop your keys over before you leave. Your belongings in the fridge, cupboard and bathroom need to be cleared out along with your bed.

‘Additionally rather than illegally dumping your furniture on the street organise a trash removalist. If you can’t manage to do this I will pay someone to do it and it will come out of your bond.’ 

After sending the message to Baird, she wrote to Ms Smith: ‘BHahahahahahahhaha.’

She said it took her a while to write the message because she was furious. She wrote: ‘I’ve seen red’.

Ms Smith replied: ‘I’m laughing. ILLEGALLY DUMPED. He’s even left his toothbrush and all his toiletries. BIN.’

Ms King pointed out that councils can fine anyone who dumps furniture on the pavement, and that she had checked before messaging Baird.

At 8.01am, Ms Smith said to Ms King: ‘I’ve thrown out everything in the fridge and pantry and taken his tent outside. I think all that’s left is his bed and all his toiletries in the bathroom cupboard.

‘Sorry I couldn’t be there to help today! Let me know how it goes xx.’

Ms King replied: ‘Bless you!!! You really didn’t have to do that you’re a working class girl! I can’t wait for our place to be clean!!!.

‘I’m clearing everything out of the bathroom so it can be empty for the cleaner but I’ll put it back tonight /tomorrow! Full detox.’

The court heard Ms King had organised for a cleaner to arrive the following morning, on February 22 at 10am.

The cleaners were at the property when police arrived and declared the house a crime scene.

By that stage, the surfboard bags, tarp and blood were gone from the back courtyard. Ms Smith and Ms King thought Baird had cleaned it up.

Baird and Davies’ bodies were discovered in Bungonia, about 180km south of Sydney, on February 27.

Prosecutors allege Lamarre-Condon was ‘obsessed’ with Baird and couldn’t accept the end of their relationship, which was on-off between late-2022 and mid-2023.

The court also released a video of their glamping holiday together in 2023.

The trial continues at 10am on Tuesday. 

Two Iranian nationals who entered the UK on small boats have been charged with preparing acts of terrorism over an alleged plot to target Manchester’s Jewish community before Yom Kippur.

Salam Ahmadyan, 36, and Rahman Salehi, 34, were arrested in Manchester’s Northern Quarter on September 20 and charged earlier today.

Counter Terrorism Policing said the men were allegedly in contact with a third party overseas in connection with the suspected plot. Investigators said the contact may have been with Iran.

The pair are understood to have arrived in the UK by small boat in 2020 and 2023. One has been granted asylum, while the other has an active asylum claim.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the allegations would be “deeply distressing” for the Jewish community, adding that both suspects had “arrived by small boat several years ago”.

Police said the men had allegedly obtained a document entitled “steps for making [a] powder chlorine and car brake oil/fluid bomb”, along with video instructions on making or assembling an improvised explosive device.

The charges allege that the suspects searched online for possible targets and carried out “reconnaissance” at the locations.

The alleged terror plot emerged almost a year after the deadly attack at Heaton Park synagogue, in which two people were killed, and on the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

Deputy assistant commissioner Vicki Evans, the senior national coordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, described the charges as “extremely serious”. She said officers had disrupted “what we believe to have been a plot targeting the Jewish community in Manchester”.

Ms Evans said there was no indication of an ongoing threat to the public, but acknowledged the arrests had caused “a great deal of concern to the Jewish community, as well as with the wider public”.

If confirmed, the alleged plot would mark the third terrorist targeting of the area in two years.

Terry Woods, deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, said: “We know how concerning this news will be to Jewish communities in Greater Manchester, and beyond.

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“We know this is particularly acute on the calendar anniversary of last year’s terrorist atrocity at the Heaton Park synagogue and during the Jewish High Holy Days.

“We continue to work hand in glove locally with community leaders, the Community Security Trust and our local policing teams, and nationally with Counter Terrorism Police London, which has been leading this investigation.

“Our ongoing and robust policing plans within Jewish communities will endure. The public can expect continued police visibility, with officers providing engagement and security.”

Marc Levy, chief executive of the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester, said the arrests came at an “incredibly concerning time” for British Jews, a year after Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby were killed in the Heaton Park attack.

“We once again repeat that security can only ever deal with the symptoms,” Mr Levy said.

“One year on from the murder of Melvin and Adrian, the Government must redouble its efforts to tackle the root causes of the hatred and extremism espoused in places of worship and other community spaces, which continue to motivate people to target Jews.”

‘We cannot simply keep protecting our community from the next attack but must do much more to stop people being motivated to carry one out in the first place.’

The pair’s arrests came almost 12 months after knife-wielding Islamic State supporter Jihad Al-Shamie tried to force his way into the Heaton Park Synagogue on October 2 last year during Yom Kippur.

Al-Shamie – who was wearing a fake suicide belt and rang 999 during his attack saying ‘I have killed two Jews in the name of Islamic State’ – had already stabbed Mr Cravitz, 66.

As a police marksman fired his Glock pistol at the terrorist, an inquest earlier this month heard how one round fatally struck Mr Daulby, 53, who was bravely helping to barricade the doors.

That round also hit 39-year-old Yoni Finlay, who survived.

The year before a terrorist attack on the same Jewish community planned by Walid Saadaoui, 38, the former owner of an Italian restaurant in Great Yarmouth, and Amar Hussein, 52, a former Iraqi soldier who worked in an appliance store in Bolton, was foiled after they unwittingly bought assault rifles, handguns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition from an undercover officer.

Saadaoui was sentenced to life in jail with a minimum of 37 years and Hussein to life with a minimum of 26 years in February.

This is a breaking news story.

This article includes distressing material

Ethan Ungerboeck was portrayed as a gifted Scots College student from a prosperous Sydney family. Yet behind that privileged image, the 21-year-old allegedly participated in some of the most disturbing online criminal activity encountered by seasoned crime reporters.

The allegations involve child abuse material and videos showing the torture and killing of animals, placing his hidden online life among the most confronting cases to emerge from Australia’s dark web investigations.

As he sat in court and moved through a negotiated plea arrangement, his demeanour appeared to contrast sharply with the seriousness of the allegations. The proceedings left questions about the full extent of what he had done.

Court records have revealed cases involving extreme sexual offending and violence before, but the breadth of the material linked to Ungerboeck stands apart for its scale and severity.

The evidence also points to an apparent fixation on the humiliation, fear and suffering of vulnerable victims, including babies and young children, as well as animals.

Ungerboeck is due to be sentenced next month. Even under the reduced charges in his plea agreement, he could face up to 15 years in prison. Until then, concerns remain about the risk he may pose, particularly to neighbours who keep pets.

The case is set out in a detailed NSW Police statement of agreed facts. Its account of online abuse, cruelty and exploitation is deeply disturbing and documents conduct that has shocked those who have examined it.

The university student and former bartender lived with his wealthy parents in their five-bedroom, four-bathroom Maroubra property, valued at about $6 million. Police allege the home was the base for his offending.

According to the case material, he used his technical knowledge to access hidden online networks. His defence has highlighted his intelligence, while prosecutors have focused on the conduct alleged to have taken place behind the walls of the family home.

Investigators discovered a Telegram account operating under the username ArchivistofArchives, along with an HP laptop and a Deepcool computer tower that Ungerboeck had owned since his school years in 2016.

A USB drive seized by police contained a large collection of abusive and violent files. The material was uncovered by Australian Federal Police cybercrime investigators during their examination of his devices.

The investigation took place in 2024, when authorities were examining “The Com”, an online network linked to cybercrime, child sexual abuse material, right-wing extremism, terrorism, sextortion and other forms of coercive abuse.

Investigators identified communities including “Harm Nation”, where young girls were reportedly pressured into self-harm before images and videos were shared, and the Gore Group, which focused on animal torture, killing and sexual abuse.

The groups relied on Telegram, an encrypted messaging platform, to circulate written messages, videos, audio and other files. Innocent-sounding filenames were often used to conceal the nature of the material being exchanged.

It was through that investigation that police identified Ethan Ungerboeck.

Unusually, Ungerboeck’s statement of facts, tendered to Downing Centre Court, begins with a caution: ‘Warning sensitive and distressing content. This document contains text-based child abuse material, bestiality material and animal crush material.’

It further states that the matters described may only be ‘transmitted or accessed for the purposes provided by law’, meaning that relating the child abuse offences in full detail would risk re-offending Ethan’s crimes. 

You won’t really want to hear it all, believe me, but we’ll give some hints as to its ghastly breadth.

The child abuse material that Ungerboeck was charged over consists of images and videos of mostly naked female children ranging in age from a one-year-old up to 17.

Things are done to children by adults with objects. Dogs are forced into sexual acts with men and women. In one video, a male engages sexually with a snake.

The so-called ‘animal crush’ material at the centre of Ethan’s offences depicts the vivid, brutal slaying of puppies and kittens. 

On an Emtec USB drive, Ungerboeck saved 4,034 image files and 101 videos – all of which were downloaded or created when Ethan was a child and ‘predominantly’ not accessed since he was 16. 

Ungerboeck’s file name for several images is ‘loli’, involving children aged between four and ten.

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On his Telegram account, Ungerboeck saved 16 videos containing child abuse material and exchanged messages with a user called ‘oy mondo’ to receive videos of animal crush material.

The facts cite an 18-minute, five-second video titled ‘Dead cats on Sesame Street Volume 2 – f***ed up media productions’, a compilation of kittens being tortured and killed.

The methods included animals being hanged, beaten, drowned, crushed, nailed, burned and placed in a blender.

Other videos received by Ungerboeck show the torture and killing of monkeys. His Telegram group chats with others feature their appalling descriptions of violence to animals, including a hamster, a goat and a quail.

According to the documents, Ungerboeck recorded himself singing along to ‘existing rap song lyrics which he changed in a way that constituted child abuse material’ about a ‘baby’.

In a conversation with another Telegram user, who had his account deleted for making a coded reference for child pornography, Ungerboeck again mentions sexual acts with children.

He sends user oy mondo a two-hour, 50-minute suicide video of a Russian man shooting himself with an assault rifle.

Police arrested Ethan Ungerboeck in December 2024 and charged him with 17 offences, 12 relating to child abuse material, two to bestiality and three to animal crush material.

When arrested, Ungerboeck quickly turned on his associates, revealing the groups’ secrets and how to find them, boasting to detectives that his entry was ‘invite only, you know, similar to drug dealers. You have to know them.’ 

Last week, when Ungerboeck’s high-profile solicitor Michael Bowe sought his client’s tenth delay in court, Judge Susan Horan responded with open disbelief.

When Mr Bowe insisted the defence hadn’t ‘been sitting on our hands,’ she replied: ‘Ten committal hearings is ten too many.’

Following a discussion with prosecutors, Mr Bowe secured a reduction of his client’s charges – ten were withdrawn – in exchange for guilty pleas.

Ungerboeck pleaded guilty to possessing or controlling child abuse material accessed via a carriage service, producing child abuse material with intent to transmit using a carriage service, and using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material.

He also pleaded guilty to possessing child abuse material on a USB, and to using a carriage service to cause offence by providing audio-visual material depicting another person fatally shooting themselves in the head.

The guilty pleas included two counts of possessing bestiality material and three counts of possessing animal crush material.

A further two charges, relating to transmitting offensive material and using child abuse material, which did not result in a conviction, will be considered at Ungerboeck’s sentencing next month.

Among the child abuse material cited in Ungerboeck’s offences was ‘an image of a female child aged 15 to 16 years wearing a white top pulled down to expose her breasts.

‘On the young female’s chest is a recent cutting which reads UBAY X ETHAN. The wound still has blood dripping down her chest on her white top,’ the documents said. 

Ungerboeck, who had dated a 16-year-old girl when aged 20, had bitten her so hard that half her face went numb, and burnt her with a cigarette.

Ungerboeck eventually pleaded guilty to four domestic violence charges in relation to his treatment of the 16-year-old, but wasn’t convicted because his lawyer successfully argued that he has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and depression.

He told the girl he had a number of girls around the world with his name carved into their bodies.

Although police were investigating him as part of a broader probe into online groups trading images of children engaged in sexual acts and self-harm, Ungerboeck was charged over the ‘cutting’ image with an offence of possessing child abuse material and pleaded guilty.

At sentencing, Ungerboeck’s lawyer is expected to cite his client’s mental health in an attempt to keep him out of prison.

If successful, Ungerboeck could remain in the family’s luxury home – whether the Maroubra residence or his new ‘architecturally designed dress circle’ address, complete with European appliances and marble benchtops – as listed in his latest court documents.

His fate will be decided at sentencing next month.