Bilal Skaf: How the month-long rampage unfolded
THEY were heinous crimes — gang rapes that brutally traumatised at least seven teenage girls and left the nation appalled.As the joy of the upcoming 2000 Olympics swelled through Sydney, a frenzy of attacks unfolded.
It is exactly 15 years ago. But they remain some of the most vicious crimes Sydney has witnessed for many decades.
Over four horrifying weeks from August to September, a gang of Lebanese-Australian Muslim youths went on a rape rampage targeting young, non-Muslim girls.
The attacks were so degrading and demeaning, the judge described them as “worse than murder”.
NSW District Court judge Michael Finnane jailed the nine young men — including 18-year-old ringleader Bilal Skaf — for a total of 240 years, describing the attacks as “what you hear or read about only in the context of wartime atrocities”.
This is how it happened.
It started on August 4, when a 14-year-old girl, who was weeks away from performing in the Olympic opening ceremony, was approached by four men while travelling on a train to Punchbowl, in western Sydney.
“I’ve got a slut with me bro, come to Punchbowl”In a vicious attack she was punched, slapped, had condoms thrown at her, genitalia thrust at her and told she would be forced to perform oral sex on the men and then be raped.
“I’ve got a slut with me bro, come to Punchbowl,” one said on his mobile.
The girl was dragged off the train but managed to break free and escape before she was harmed.
On August 10, two girls — aged 17 and 18 — were late-night shopping at Chatswood Mall on the North Shore, when they were approached by eight men, including Bilal who introduced himself as “Adam”.
With the promise of sharing a joint, the girls were lured to a white van with four of the men. A red car, with the other four men, followed the van across the Harbour Bridge, to Northcote Park in Greenacre.
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