Pakistanis raped girls for 'fun'

Author: IANS
Publication: The Times of India
Date: November 29, 2003
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/329677.cms

It has emerged after the conviction of four Pakistani immigrant brothers of various rape charges that they raped two teenaged Anglo- Australian girls "just for fun".
 
While a New South Wales Supreme Court jury found the two eldest brothers guilty on Thursday, their younger siblings were proven guilty of raping the girls in their inner-west Sydney home on the July 28 night last year.
 
All four siblings from northwestern Pakistan , aged between 17 and 25 years, could face life sentences under the newly enacted provincial laws.
 
The two elder brothers' trial was held separately as they refused the legal help and decided to
contest their cases themselves.
 
Various pleas were tried by the duo to evade conviction.
 
The four Pakistani brothers, who immigrated in the last three years, also repeatedly told the Supreme Court jury they did not know anything about the Australian justice system.

All four brothers and one friend had raped two girls, identified only by their initials LS and MG for being under-18, repeatedly at knifepoint in the brothers' Ashfield home.
 
The youngest of the brothers raped MG three times at knifepoint and told her that LS has already been killed and she could face the same consequences if she did not keep quiet.
 
The court also lifted a suppression order on a trial earlier this year where the two younger brothers and another man aged 25 were convicted over the same attack.
 
The court has not released the names of these sons of a Pakistani doctor as two of the younger rape convicts were aged under 18 when the rapes took place.
 
The four have been so far identified only with their initials MMK, MSK, MAK and MRK.
 
The father of the four brothers arrived in Australia just three weeks before the shocking incident.
 
The defendants' father pleaded that the brothers were not home on the said night. The 64-year-old's evidence was supported by the wife of the eldest brother and her sister.
 
The wife had also claimed that her husband was flying to Pakistan to be with their son who was undergoing an operation.
 
All the four brothers had pleaded innocence.
 
But the victims' testimonies, evidence put together by police, ambulance officers and medical and DNA experts, completely demolished their stories.
 
The father of the convicted quartet has labelled the convictions of his four sons as an "anti-Islamic conspiracy" and asserted that appeals would be filed against the guilty verdicts.
 

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