Sydney's Occupied Territories: Rape victim too distraught to speak after video

Rape victim too distraught to speak after video

By Larissa Cummings
The Daily Telegraph
March 21, 2009 12:00am

A TEENAGE girl who woke up next to one of the notorious "K" brothers with her underwear missing and her skirt hitched up is too frightened to watch the video that forced her attacker to admit he sexually assaulted her.

MRK, one of four Pakistani brothers in jail for a spree of sex attacks on teenage girls in 2002, was 17 when he was filmed indecently touching and assaulting the unconscious 15-year-old.

In the footage, MRK directs the person holding the camera where to film as he repeatedly violates the girl.

Despite claiming he has no recollection of the offences, MRK, now 24, pleaded guilty in December to two counts of aggravated sexual assault after he was shown the video evidence.

An agreed statement of facts tendered to the District Court at MRK's sentencing hearing yesterday said the incident happened after the girl watched the 2002 Mardi Gras parade with the brothers in the city.

Afterwards, she went with them to their Ashfield home where they plied her with alcohol until she grew dizzy, vomited and passed out. She woke the next morning to find MRK next to her in bed, her skirt around her waist and her underwear on the floor.

Nine months later, police discovered footage of the girl being molested by MRK on one of several video cassettes found in a search of the brothers' home.

The girl has told police she refuses to view the assault because she is "ashamed of what it might contain".

MRK was charged in December 2002, but before his trial the girl told police she did not want the prosecution to proceed and charges were dropped.

In July 2007, three months before MRK - who was serving 10 years - was eligible to be released on parole, police charged him with two counts of aggravated sexual assault and three counts of aggravated indecent assault after the girl provided a further statement.

He will be sentenced this month.

MRK is in Goulburn's supermax prison where he has asked to be kept in protection, the court heard. "Some of his brothers were brutally bashed last year . . . and he holds great fears for his safety," lawyer Phillip Young said.

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Michael (?) Darwiche
Arrested and denied bail.

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Darwiche denied 'vengeance', and bail

The Daily Telegraph
March 20, 2009 05:30pm

A SYDNEY man accused of planning to avenge the shooting murder of his brother has been denied bail, despite pleading for release to help care for his dead sibling's children.

Michael Darwiche, 40, sat quietly in the dock of Bankstown Local Court on Friday as his barrister argued for bail on eight firearms charges.

Darwiche is the brother of Abdul Darwiche, shot dead in a hail of bullets in front of his children near a Sydney service station last Saturday.

Since the killing, there has been speculation a long-standing gang feud between the Darwiches and the rival Razzak and Fahda families would be reignited.

Darwiche was arrested about 9pm (AEDT) on Thursday at Bankstown.

"At 9pm yesterday the defendant was the passenger in the front seat of a motor vehicle driving along Salvia Avenue in Bankstown,'' barrister Michael Coroneos told the court.

The blue BMW was subsequently searched by police, with Darwiche claiming he and the driver, Michael Darwick (Michael Darwick), were on their way to a McDonald's restaurant.

However, underneath the rear passenger seat of the BMW, police allegedly found a Glock 23 pistol and an amount of ammunition, a street directory, and the names and addresses of the Fahda family.

"There is nothing to suggest that he (Michael Darwiche) had knowledge of the existence of the firearm when he got in the front passenger seat,'' Mr Coroneos said.

He insisted the police case relied wholly on speculation.

"There is nothing that can be placed before this court that this person has done anything to ... present a danger to the community,'' he added.

Mr Coroneos argued his client, a director of a construction company, should be granted bail to continue his business and financially support his wife and five children, as well as the children of his murdered brother.

Sergeant Wayne Druery admitted much of the evidence was speculative but asked Magistrate Paul Falzon to consider the protection of the community and refuse bail.

"This defendant comes before you not on one matter in which there is no presumption in favour of bail, but two,'' Sgt Druery said to Mr Falzon.

"It is true that we are still waiting on scientific evidence, but we say at this stage that there is strong circumstantial evidence.''

Mr Falzon noted Darwiche's strong community ties and willingness to provide surety in excess of $800,000 and surrender his passport, but denied bail.

Darwiche is due to face Sydney Central Local Court on May 14 by audio visual link.

He and his co-accused face eight charges, including unlicensed possession of an unregistered firearm and being armed with intent to commit an indictable offence.

Darwiche, 36, did not apply for bail and is due before Sydney's Central Local Court next Friday.

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