The ABC has been granted access to photos which show inside the pig shed where a South Australian hobby farmer held a European backpacker captive for two days in 2017.

Key points: Gene Charles Bristow was found guilty of kidnapping and rape of backpacker

Gene Charles Bristow was found guilty of kidnapping and rape of backpacker He restrained the woman with cable ties and shackles in a pig shed on his farm

He restrained the woman with cable ties and shackles in a pig shed on his farm Pictures of the crime scene have been revealed for the first time

A District Court jury deliberated for three hours on Monday before finding Gene Charles Bristow guilty of aggravated kidnapping, rape, attempted rape and indecent assault.

The 54-year-old showed no emotion as the jury foreperson repeatedly said "guilty" in response to all six charges.

The court heard when Bristow hatched his plan to lure a young female backpacker to his 40-hectare property at Meningie, he was unemployed, the farm was not profitable and money was tight.

Bristow speaks to police while they search the area for the missing backpacker. ( District Court )

He lived on the farm with his wife of 25 years, his adult son and his son's partner.

Unbeknown to them, the court heard that in the days leading up to the kidnapping, Bristow conducted internet searches for shackles, handcuffs, tasers and Rohypnol — more commonly known as the "date rape drug".

He had spoken to other female backpackers online before responding to an advertisement his victim posted on Gumtree looking for farm work.

He told the travellers online that he was looking for a female farmhand because they were gentler with young cattle and male farmhands were too heavy-handed.

While on the stand, Bristow admitted to using a fake name when communicating with the backpacker online and that he lied about the farm's location — telling her it was in Lameroo — some 150 kilometres east of Meningie.

He falsely told her the farm was one of several in South Australia owned by a company called "Genesis Inc" and that there was a vacancy because a French girl had just left.

The pig shed on Bristow's Meningie farm. ( District Court )

Bristow's son gave evidence against his father during the trial and told the jury they had never advertised or employed a farmhand to work on the property before because there was not enough work to require assistance.

Despite calling himself "Mark" online, Bristow collected the backpacker from out the front of the Murray Bridge Visitor Information Centre in his red ute with the personalised number plate "Gene 01".

The court heard he made the drive back to the property take twice as long and took two ferries to give the young backpacker a false impression about the farm's remoteness and to avoid driving through the Meningie town centre and being spotted by locals.

Inside the pig shed. ( District Court )

The jury was told once Bristow had led the backpacker into an "old, dirty pig shed" out of sight from his family home, he pressed a replica gun against her shoulder and threatened to shoot her if she tried to leave.

The backpacker told the court Bristow then tied her hands behind her back with cable ties, shackled her feet with chains and stripped her naked before sexually assaulting her multiple times.

A replica gun Gene Charles Bristow used when he threatened to shoot the backpacker if she tried to escape. ( District Court )

She said Bristow told her he was working as part of some kind of sex slave ring where men kidnapped and drugged women before shipping them to Sydney.

There was no evidence put to the court that the backpacker was ever drugged during the two-day ordeal.

During the night the woman found haybale clips inside an old fridge in the shed which she used to loosen her chains.

A bar and shackle used to detain the backpacker in the pig shed. ( District Court )

She said Bristow had taken her phone but her laptop was still in the shed with the rest of her luggage so she used email and Facebook to send distress messages to family, friends and SA Police.

She told them she was not sure where she was but that she had been picked up by a man in a red ute at Murray Bridge.

Chains used to shackle the backpacker which police found at the bottom of a well on Bristow's property. ( District Court )

The woman said she was too afraid to run away in the dark because she did not know where to go so she made the brave decision to re-shackle herself — intending to escape the following night if she had not been found.

Prosecutors told the court Bristow panicked when police started searching the area and drove the woman back to Murray Bridge where he helped her check into a motel and left.

They said he then shaved his head to change his appearance and went about covering up his crimes by throwing the chains down a well and covering the couch where the backpacker was shackled with hay and other objects.

Bristow has been in custody since his arrest and faces a maximum sentence of life in prison for his crimes.