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The court errupted as Nagi's mother also began yelling in defence of her son, and one the victims present retorted: "You weren't there!"
Judge James Bennett found Nagi had shown no remorse, had been predatory, and "demonstrated a disrespect for the female gender and a willingness to pursue his own (sexual) gratification regardless of them and their interests."
You Rape three women (that we know of) and are sentenced to a little over 4 years for each one and your relatives think you are hard done by, Oh that’s right, I forgot the Rapist is a Muslim, and his victims are Australians.
Fred Nile's bill to ban the burqa to be debated
Daily Telegraph
June 23, 2010
CHRISTIAN Democratic Party MP Fred Nile has succeeded in introducing a bill to ban the wearing of the burqa in the NSW Upper House.
Mr Nile introduced his private member's bill, seeking to ban the wearing of the burqa and other face veils in public, shortly after 8pm on Tuesday.
Last month, a debate on the same bill was voted down by the NSW Upper House.
Greens MP John Kaye said only the four Greens MPs and Family First MP Gordon Moyes voted against introducing the bill on Tuesday.
"Last month the coalition and the government did the right thing and said no, they would not allow the Upper House to be home to this kind of racist dog whistling," Mr Kaye said.
"This time they caved in."
Mr Kaye said Mr Nile's bill has opened the door to a "dangerous and divisive attack on one of NSW's communities".
"Letting loose the ugly bigotry that lies behind this bill will only encourage hostility to the Muslim community," he said.
"While no woman should be forced to wear a burqa or any other form of clothing, this absurd bill will do nothing to enhance the rights of women."
Mr Nile has denied the bill is racist, saying his concern lay with issues of security and women's rights.
The bill has been adjourned until September 2010.
'Don Juan' HIV taxi rapist jailed: 'I swear on my kids you are going to be shocked'
He aquired AID’s from his Dentist … as one so often does! Has he given the name of his Dentist to Authorities?
SMH
JOEL GIBSON
June 23, 2010 - 1:28PM
An HIV positive Sydney taxi driver who raped three female passengers had to be dragged out of court after being sentenced to 13 years in jail.
After the sentencing, Hassan Nagi, 38, stood holding a picture of his children and said he wanted to say something to the media: "I swear on my kids you are going to be shocked. Put the date down that I am going to be released. You will get a big shock."
Nagi, a father of three from Bexley, who pleaded a chronic case of "Don Juanism" in court, will be eligible for parole in October 2018.
Hassan Nagi ... pleaded for a lesser sentence.
His total prison term is for 13 years, 10 months and four days.
The victims, aged 31, 23 and 27, were raped after hailing Nagi's cab at night. Two of them were heavily intoxicated after a night out. Their identities have been suppressed.
Nagi's lawyer said he had been diagnosed with "a man's equivalent of nymphomania".
District Court Judge James Bennett said today that the offences were in the "serious" category.
He said that Nagi had abused a position of trust: people who do the right thing and do not drive home at night put trust in taxi drivers to get them safely to their destinations.
Justice Bennett also said there was an element of premeditation in his acts, because he had driven the women to out-of-the-way places.
Justice Bennett said he was not persuaded by a psychiatrist's diagnosis that Nagi was suffering from "Don Juanism".
"Implicit in that is the proposition that he was a master-seducer of women, blessed with charm and persuasive skills without the need to resort to the basic [methods that he adopted]," he said.
Outside court, Nagi's mother claimed that her son was innocent, healthy and that reports of his HIV status were untrue. She claimed the whole story would come out eventually.
The victims attended court for the sentence.
A relative of Nagi was heard to say in the direction of the victims: "Your lies are dripping off you."
One of the victims responded, "Read about it in the papers."
Nagi took an HIV test after pleading guilty in February last year to six counts of sexual assault.
When it came back positive, his lawyers told the victims.
In a decision published this month, the Court of Criminal Appeal said there was no evidence he had infected his victims or his family.
It is understood Nagi's family believes he contracted the virus from a dentist, despite his admission of frequent sex with prostitutes since the age of 20.
Justice Bennett confirmed that Nagi had undertaken an HIV test in 2003 that had come back negative, so he could have been infected any time since.
But he also said the risk of infection by a dentist was extremely low.
Nagi's lawyer had told the court that an article published in the Herald about his client was further evidence of the hardship he would inevitably face due to his HIV status and it should help to reduce his sentence.
The judge said while Nagi’s HIV status meant that the punishment he suffered would be greater, it was hard to quantify how much it should reduce his sentence.
Nagi's battle to keep his infected status a secret lasted 15 months and went all the way to the High Court.
The case pitted the principles of open justice against public health interests.
Joel Gibson is the Herald's Legal Affairs correspondent.