'It's plain un-Australian': The Candyman hits out at accusations he hates women, claiming he is 'just a larrikin'- as a shocking video of women being dragged into a cage appears on his Instagram

  • Travers Beynon posted more material online targeting a woman journalist
  • His posts were in response to accusations of being misogynistic
  • In one shocking video, women in underwear are dragged into a cage
  • Beynon - dubbed 'The Candyman' - claims he is just being a 'larrikin'

Bizarre new videos, photos and rants aimed at a woman journalist have appeared on a social media accounts for Travers Beynon - The 'Candyman' - accompanied by claims he is just being 'a larrikin'.

In the latest video posted by Beynon, a group of women clad only in underwear are dragged into a cage by a lizard suit-clad character, before the video cuts to an image of A Current Affair's Leisa Goddard on board a boat.

Separately, a photograph on Instagram of Beynon aiming a gun directly the camera is captioned: 'Found the ACA [A Current Affair] mole at my party - You're in my sights. Can you pick who it was'.

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The bizarre video shows the creature, right, dragging women wearing black lingerie and high heels into a cage

The bizarre video shows the creature, right, dragging women wearing black lingerie and high heels into a cage

The creature pushes the women into the cage, where they collapse to the ground, before the video cuts to footage of Leisa Goddard

The creature pushes the women into the cage, where they collapse to the ground, before the video cuts to footage of Leisa Goddard

This image was captioned: 'Found the ACA mole at my party - You're in my sights. Can you pick who it was'

This image was captioned: 'Found the ACA mole at my party - You're in my sights. Can you pick who it was'

Gold Coast tobacco tycoon 'The Candyman' (right) has been labelled a 'misogynistic monster' after staging the murder of female reporter Leisa Goddard (left) at his debauched 'party of a lifetime'

Last week, Beynon posted a video of himself taking aim and shooting at a boat carrying two stunt people – including a blonde woman with a striking resemblance to Goddard.

The stunt occurred, at the tobacco millionaire's Gold Coast mansion, as the Channel Nine news program's theme song played along with a voice over lifted a story Ms Goddard's had done on Beynon.

The stunt was slammed as misogynistic.

Ms Goddard was outraged and accused Beynon of 'stooping to an all time low' at a time when the Australian community was trying to stop domestic violence against women.

The tobacco tycoon, who held a lavish party worth about $500,000 at his Gold Coast home recently where a blaze caused by fireworks could have got out of hand, has been on a campaign against Goddard since she covered a story about him earlier in 2015.

His video of the women being dragged into a cage by a person appearing to be dressed as the creature from the Black Lagoon was accompanied by a rant denouncing Goddard and media in general.

'Seems being a larrikin these days means you’ve got a target on your back - that’s just plain un-Australian. The Candyman is an entertainer, and if that means taking the piss then that’s what I call being very Australian,' it read.

The news program's theme song played, along with a voice over lifted from Ms Goddard's first story on Beynon, as the tobacco tycoo hurled fake grenades at his target

The female stunt woman (left) appeared to look like Ms Goddard and was accompanied by a camera man

The female stunt woman (left) appeared to look like Ms Goddard and was accompanied by a camera man

The stunt ended in a ball of flames as the stunt people jumped ship just in time 

The stunt ended in a ball of flames as the stunt people jumped ship just in time 

This caption accompanied a bizarre video on the Candyman's Instagram account

This caption accompanied a bizarre video on the Candyman's Instagram account

'It’s a shame our media still subscribe to the tall poppy syndrome where it’s easier to put people down than it is to have a laugh with them.'

It also said 'at no time has Leisa Goddard ever been threatened either directly or indirectly'.

She could 'dish it out' but not take it when the tables were turned, it claimed.

While some comments on his videos and images say his actions are out of line, the majority are in support of The Candyman.

Goddard, who has called The Candyman a 'narcissistic control freak', told The Sunday Mail he was a 'keyboard coward and a sexist one at that'.

'Women should be, as I am, outraged that he thinks this is funny. He’s calling himself the Minister for Fun. There is nothing funny about violence against women and crude attacks of a sexual nature,' she said.

She also noted that 'people like Mr Beynon court publicity but, when it comes to attention he doesn’t like, you can see from this vendetta how nasty and vile he can be' .

Recently, Federal Minister for Women Michaela Cash said on A Current Affair she was outraged that Beynon had attempted to glamourize violence against women for his own 'entertainment'.

'I condemn this deplorable behaviour to the fullest extent... Any action that encourages violence against women, any action that encourages disrespect against women, is just wrong,' she said.

Also on the programme, aired in the days after The Candyman's opulent party, social commentator and writer Jane Caro said the 'pathetic' performance was designed to intimidate women who may have attempted to question or challenge seemingly powerful men like Beynon.

'The general message is don't take me on girlies because we will make your life misery if you do – it's a form of bullying.

Federal Minister for Women Michaela Cash said she was outraged that Beynon had attempted to glamourize violence against women for his own 'entertainment'

Federal Minister for Women Michaela Cash said she was outraged that Beynon had attempted to glamourize violence against women for his own 'entertainment'

Social commentator and writer Jane Caro said the 'pathetic' performance was designed to intimidate women who may have attempted to question or challenge seemingly powerful men like Beynon

Social commentator and writer Jane Caro said the 'pathetic' performance was designed to intimidate women who may have attempted to question or challenge seemingly powerful men like Beynon

 

 

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