Any maximum-security prisoner who needed medical treatment was moved in there. He had a mouth like his brother, but he was nothing too.
They both ended up in protection because everyone wanted them dead. Skaf did not back down despite the bashings and the death threats. He claimed that he started a gang while in jail called W2K — Willing To Kill — and threatened to shoot court officers and prison guards.
He drew pictures depicting rape and sent white powder that looked like anthrax to prison boss Ron Woodham. But Skaf also sobbed in his cell and attempted to commit suicide. Regardless, he was a piece of shit and we were happy to see him leave. Another guard revealed a few protections have had near misses while being locked away in Long Bay Jail.
The same guard witnessed three men murder an alleged dog while working at Silverwater Jail. They stabbed him 27 times, with industrial scissors, in front of everybody. He was in there, doing his work, and these three Asian guys just walked up to him and started stabbing. It was brutal. He died on the spot. As soon as I heard about it, I rushed in to help. I saw the last one go through and watched Tram die.
He was sewing linen sheets at the time. The evidence showed Mohammed Skaf to be a treacherous bully who betrayed the trust of the victim and made her, a sixteen-year old school girl, available to his brother and ten or eleven other men.
The young girl who was the victim of these rapes could identify Mohammed Skaf, whom she knew well. Both of the Skafs were convicted. Evidence was presented to show the layout of the park, the positioning of lights and buildings in the park and evidence was given by the complainant that these events happened at night time.
This trial concerned violent sexual assaults on a young woman of 18 who was travelling home by train on an afternoon on 30 August She was reading a book of English literature, when a group of men led by Mohammed Skaf surrounded her and commenced to assault her indecently.
After being indecently assaulted on the train, she was then forced off the train and was taken up the steps of the Bankstown railway station.
An year-old woman was forced off a train at Bankstown station after being indecently assaulted by a group led by Mohammed Skaf. She was later raped 40 times by 14 attackers.
The victim was taken from the station area and forced into public toilets where four men in this group sexually assaulted her, with one of them assaulting her twice. A mobile phone was then used by someone in this group to secure the attendance of another group who arrived in a car. The victim was then taken by car to a car park near the Bankstown Trotting Club where she was vaginally raped once and orally raped twice. Then another car arrived with the offenders Chami and two other men, one man known as Nike Sam.
In this next car, the victim was repeatedly indecently assaulted, threatened with death when something that looked like a gun was held to her head and raped vaginally three times and orally five times.
She was also raped vaginally by another man who also forced oral sex on her. Bilal Skaf again had vaginal sex with her. Another car then pulled up which had in it, amongst others, Mohammed Skaf. The four men in this other car all raped this unfortunate young girl, who was then hosed down until she was soaking wet and forced out of the car that she was in near the Catholic Club at Lidcombe. Skaf and the members of this gang clearly wanted public recognition for what they had done.
By this time, she had been kidnapped and raped vaginally, orally and anally more than forty times by fourteen men. Pack rapist Bilal Skaf left was caught with a number of sick cartoons he had drawn in Supermax, including this depiction of his ex-girlfriend being raped at gunpoint right. The trial for these ofences was particularly horrifying. I thought she was a particularly brave young woman who refused to give in to any of these suggestions. Her evidence was very powerful. In the witness box, she clutched a small doll in her hands and gave firm and clear evidence.
Major Joyce Harmer of the Salvation Army was in court as a support person for her and I am sure this helped her greatly when she was giving evidence. The same trial process occurred as happened in the first trial and during my summing up I made the same remarks about the entitlement of a woman to say no.
Ghanem was convicted of various offences at this trial but was later acquitted by direction of the Court of Criminal Appeal, which ruled that certain evidence tendered by the Crown, and allowed by me to be given in the trial, should not have been admitted. This was evidence of incriminating phone calls between him and Chami.
This then meant there was not sufficient evidence against him of identification. The complainant, who had been sexually assaulted by fourteen men something like forty times over four hours, could not identify him.
Major Harmer is next to her husband Major Hilton Harmer. When I came to reflect on the facts of this trial, I again found myself wondering what it was that caused Bilal Skaf and the others with him to behave in such a depraved and violent fashion against a completely helpless girl. As well as these men who went to trial, there were four other men who subsequently pleaded guilty to participating in this spate of sexual assaults. One of them was a fourteen-year-old boy with an intellectual disability who was known, following directions by me, as H, and two brothers, Mahmoud Sanoussi and Mohammed Sanoussi.
The last person to plead guilty was a friend of Mohammed Skaf. Those who pleaded guilty, were given lesser sentences than those who pleaded not guilty, because the law provided for this. If a person who is guilty, pleads guilty, anxiety and stress to the victims is removed and it is reasonable to give lesser sentences.
The law provides that a discount of up to 25 per cent is appropriate to be given if the plea of guilty is given at an early time.
There were others who have never been brought to trial. The identities of the men in the red van on 10 August have never been established. Those accompanying Bilal Skaf on 12 August, perhaps ten, perhaps eleven men, have not been brought to trial and many of those involved in the horrific spate of sexual assaults on 30 August have not been brought to trial.
In my view, all of these men remain a continuing threat to the Sydney community and particularly to young women. Those involved in these crimes committed them between 10 August and 30 August on three separate occasions. Mobile phone technology was used on each occasion to coordinate the attacks, which were well planned and carried out with determination by young men, one as young as fourteen, the oldest being Bilal Skaf at twenty-one years of age. It is a common matter during the process of sentencing criminal offenders that their counsel would present psychological evidence, sometimes psychiatric evidence and other evidence to create as strong a subjective case for the offender as could be presented.
It came as a surprise to me that nothing was going to be presented to me by counsel for Bilal Skaf. I pointed out at the time that he was likely to get the biggest sentence ever imposed for these sort of offences and surely he would want to present something to ameliorate his part in these crimes.
His counsel acknowledged the force of what I had said but again said that he would be presenting no evidence. He put to me in submissions that the offences had taken place over a twenty-day period and I should impose a sentence that ensured his client spent no more than twenty years in jail.
He agreed that his client showed no remorse and no contrition. Bilal Skaf sat throughout the sentencing process looking as if he could not care less about any of it. His attitude was the same throughout the trial. To my mind, the community deserved to be protected from Bilal Skaf for many years.
I do not believe he will ever acknowledge the seriousness of what he did. He will remain a threat to the community. My sentence on him was substantially reduced by the Court of Criminal Appeal, which also reduced the sentences on some of the others involved, but not all of them. I have no intention of attempting to justify my sentences.
My views on sentence were not those of the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeal, but their sentences prevail. What is still difficult for me to understand is why this serious criminal conspiracy involving so many young men was launched. There was no obvious reason. Unlike many of the rape cases of which I am aware, there was no previous contact between any of the perpetrators and the victims, except for the second one in which Mohammed Skaf selected a sixteen-year-old from his school to be a victim.
However, Bilal Skaf and the other actual rapist had never met her before. Why did the gang first of all go to a shopping centre at Chatswood? Why was the third victim plucked from a train? The fact is that right up to the present, none of the perpetrators have ever said why they became involved in these crimes. They were an attack on society, but why? What was it that caused Bilal Skaf to carefully plan this series of attacks on young women in Sydney?
Why did those who joined him, become involved? These are questions that will probably never be answered. Source link. You must be logged in to post a comment. Search Search for: Search. Switch skin Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time. Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time.
Spread the love. Leave a Reply Cancel reply You must be logged in to post a comment. Close Search for: Search. The imminent release on parole of notorious pack rapist Mohammed Skaf has been a disturbing reminder of a series of horrifying crimes that shocked the nation 21 years ago.
Mohammed Skaf and his older brother Bilal were the leaders of a month-long rampage in which six victims were raped by more than a dozen young Lebanese-Australian men.
Few crimes in recent Australian history have stirred more community anger than the campaign of terror waged by the Skaf gang across south-western Sydney in One year-old woman was raped 25 times by 14 men over six hours in an attack coordinated by mobile phone. She was then dumped at a train station after being hosed down. The Skaf brothers denied their roles in the rapes, treated their trials as a joke and continued to show no remorse once behind bars. Original sentencing judge Michael Finnane called their crimes 'worse than murder', comparing the depravity to outrages committed by invading armies in times of war.
Bilal Skaf is still in jail and will not be released before but Mohammed was granted parole on September 17 and will return next month to live with his parents at Greenacre. Mohammed Skaf pictured and his older brother Bilal were the leaders of a month-long rampage in which six victims were raped by more than a dozen young Lebanese-Australian men.
Bilal Skaf is still in jail and will not be released by but Mohammed pictured was granted parole on September 17 and will return next month to live with his parents at Greenacre. Not every gang member was involved in every attack.
Two of the parks where the Skaf gang defiled and degraded their teenage victims are m and 1. Mohammed was 17 at the time of the rapes and is now Bilal was almost 19 back then and is now This is what they did in the weeks leading up to the Sydney Olympics:.
The first attack occurred on August 10 when two Year 12 students aged 17 and 18 met a group of eight males including Bilal Skaf at Chatswood shopping centre. The girls were offered marijuana and a lift home in a white van with four of the males including Skaf, as four others followed in a red car.
Both car loads of males and the two girls headed to Northcote Park, Greenacre, where Skaf asked 'Ms A' to give him 'a head job'. Skaf told Ms A she should do what he wanted and that when the red car arrived its occupants would probably bash her if she did not comply with their demands. The Skaf family home is about 1. Mohammed lured a year-old girl to the park where Bilal and another gang member raped her while a dozen others stood around laughing.
The gang, led by Bilal Skaf, took two teenagers aged 17 and 18 to a toilet block at Northcote Park, Greenacre, where they were raped by eight men on August 10, The park, which is m from the Skaf family home, is pictured.
Ms A was forced to give Skaf oral sex in the van but was interrupted when the red car turned up. She left the van but was tackled by one of the men and thrown into bushes, forced to resume oral sex on Skaf and to do the same to four other men. Six men then stood around Ms B in front of a toilet block, all saying 'give me a head job'. She was forced to perform oral sex on Skaf and another man, and slapped across the face.
The girls were beaten and raped by eight men for two hours. After the men abandoned the girls a passing car pulled up and the occupants called police.
Two days later, on August 12, a year-old girl received a phone call from Mohammed Skaf. She had met Skaf about Christmas , gave him her phone number and knew him as 'Sam'. Skaf invited the girl to go for a drive in the city and he picked her up from her home.
He was in the back of a red car, with a man named Michael in the driver's seat, and a man Skaf introduced as Ibrahim in the front.
Bilal Skaf led a gang of young Lebanese-Australian males on a pack rape spree across Sydney's south west in During the drive Skaf and Ibrahim made a number of phone calls in Arabic and about 30 minutes after leaving the girl's home they arrived at Gosling Park, Greenacre. While Michael and Ibrahim supposedly went looking for that man Skaf started to rub the girl's leg, which she told him to stop.
When Michael and Ibrahim returned Ibrahim began touching the girl and tried to convince her to have sex with him but she got out of the car. The girl told Skaf: 'I know what's going on Sam, do you think I'm stupid? Do you think I'm dumb? As Skaf and Ibrahim argued the girl said, 'Fine, well I'm walking home. You're not leaving me with these people. Stay here until I get back.
Skaf walked away towards a soccer game being played under lights and Ibrahim sat with the girl in the back of the red car. A white van pulled up and eight males alighted. Then a blue care arrived and three more males got out. On August 12, a year-old girl received a phone call from Mohammed Skaf who invited her for a drive in the city. Once in his car Skaf made a number of phone calls in Arabic and about 30 minutes after leaving the girl's home they arrived at Gosling Park, Greenacre.
The van's driver, Bilal Skaf, told the girl he was 'Sam's' older brother and repeatedly asked her to go for a walk but she kept saying no. Bilal then grabbed the girl by the hair and said something like, 'Allah boys, Alley. As the girl cried and screamed Bilal told her she would be bashed by all the men if she did not shut up. Men were standing all around the girl.
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