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Anna Marshall 4 August 2006
Bilal Skaf, the leader of a Lebanese gang which perpetrated racially
motivated pack-rapes on Australian teenage girls in Sydney in 2000, was last
week sentenced to a further term of imprisonment. Added to the the 28 years he
is serving for other pack-rapes, his maximum term is 38 years.
His younger brother and accomplice Mohammed was sentenced to 15 years jail.
With other sentences he will serve a maximum of 26 years.
To show their disdain for Australian culture and Australian females, gangs of
Lebanese Muslims carried out violent, racist pack-rapes on young Australian
girls around Sydney in 2000. Over 50 young girls were pack-raped during this
rampage.
Bilal Skaf, the leader of one gang organised the pack rape of a
sixteen-year-old girl known as Miss D near a
soccer field in the Sydney suburb of Gosling on the night of August 12, 2000.
Fourteen Lebanese youths-pack raped Miss D that night.
Nine of the men were brought to trial. Skaf made history when he was
sentenced to 55 years jail. He appealed, and the conviction was overturned on a
technicality. On April 18 this year a jury finds the brothers guilty for the second
time.
Justice Michael Finnane who presided over the Skafs' trial, described
the assaults, in August 2000, as "one of the greatest outrages in criminal
terms that has been perpetrated on the community in Sydney ... militarily
organised gang rape involving 14 young men".
"What this trial showed was that he was the leader of the pack, a liar,
a bully, a coward, callous and mean," Finnane said of Bilal Skaf. "He
is in truth a menace to any civilised society".
Apart from the Skaf brothers, those sentenced on October 11, 2002 following
the original trial were:
- Belal Hajeid, aged 20, sentenced to 23 years
- Mahmoud Chami, 20, sentenced to 18 years
- Tayyab Sheikh, 18, sentenced to 15 years
- Mohammed Sanoussi, 18, sentenced to 21 1/4 years
- Mahmoud Sanoussi, 17, sentenced to 11 1/4 years
- 'H', 19, sentenced to 25 years
- Mohamed Ghanem, 19, sentenced to 40 years
Skaf is a weedy little bastard. Over the next 30 years he will most likely
get a greater appreciation of the impact of rape.
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