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	Gang-rapists to be re-tried: World: News: News24
		Bilal Skaf was sentenced to an unprecedented 55 years in jail for his role in a series of rapes which shocked the city in the lead up the summer Olympics in 2000.
		Bilal Skaf's lawyers said two jurors disobeyed the trial judge's orders and secretly visited the scene of the alleged crime during their deliberations.
		At the trial last year, it was alleged Bilal Skaf raped the girl after she was lured to the park by Mohammed, whom she had known for six months.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1522668,00.html (384 words)

	Australian news- bilal skaf
		Skaf and an associate, who can be referred to only as AA, were convicted in the NSW Supreme Court in April over the August 2000 pack rape of a 16-year-old girl in Greenacre's Gosling Park, in Sydney's west.
		Skaf, now 24, was convicted in 2002 on two counts of aggravated sexual intercourse without consent in company, while AA was found guilty of being an accessary before the fact.
		Skaf made NSW legal history when he was sentenced to a record 55 years in jail for leading a string of vicious gang rapes - including the Gosling Park attack - in 2000.
	www.mako.org.au /bilal_skaf_1.html (426 words)

	Gang rapists re-sentenced - National - smh.com.au
		Bilal Skaf made legal history when he was originally sentenced to 55 years for several gang rapes in western Sydney, but this was later reduced on appeal.
		Bilal Skaf raped the girl while a group of up to 14 men stood around laughing and speaking in Arabic while they held her down.
		She said Bilal Skaf was the ringleader and his sentence must reflect community outrage for the "cruel, callous and degrading" way he treated the girl.
	www.smh.com.au /news/national/31-years-jail-for-bilal-skaf/2006/07/28/1153816358559.html?from=rss (760 words)

	Media Man Australia - The Online Home of Greg Tingle - Journalist & TV Presenter
		Bilal and Mohammed Skaf have had their convictions for the gang rape of a teenager in south-western Sydney in August 2000 overturned and a retrial ordered.
		The NSW Court of Criminal Appeal overturned the convictions of Bilal Skaf and his brother Mohammed over the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in Gosling Park at Greenacre on August 12, 2000.
		Bilal Skaf was found guilty of gang raping the girl while Mohammed Skaf, who had known the girl for six months, had lured her to the park.
	www.mediaman.com.au /articles/skaf_gang.html (188 words)

	The Border Mail - Pack rapist gets 32 years
		BILAL Skaf’s youngest victim “cried and laughed” when she was told the notorious gang rapist will spend at least 32 years behind bars after a series of pack rapes in Sydney’s southwest.
		Bilal Skaf was originally sentenced to a record 55 years over three attacks in 2000, in which four teenagers were pack-raped, one up to 25 times.
		Bilal asked the girl to go for a walk, and when she refused he dragged her into the park saying, “this one’s a feisty one” as up to 14 of his friends held her down and he raped her.
	www.bordermail.com.au /news/bm/national/347420.html (383 words)

	Bilal Skaf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bilal Skaf (Arabic: بلال سكاف) (born 14 September 1981) is a serial gang rapist He led groups of Lebanese Australian men who committed three of several gang rape attacks against young white women in 2000, described by some as hate crimes.
		For the crimes Bilal Skaf is serving a 31-year prison sentence, and will be eligible for parole in 2033.
		That meant Skaf could be freed at the age of 41 in 2023.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bilal_Skaf (541 words)

	Racially motivated crime and punishment \| World dispatch \| Guardian Unlimited
		In a particularly inflammatory twist, several of the victims were subjected to a barrage of racist taunts by their assailants, all of whom were from Lebanese backgrounds.
		Skaf has never shown any remorse for the crimes or pity for the victims, and smiled as he received the guilty verdicts.
		In what many regard as a step too far, the Australian media were even leaked photographs which purported to show Baria Skaf concealing the incriminating letters in her sock, prompting complaints from privacy and civil liberties advocates.
	www.guardian.co.uk /elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,797463,00.html (927 words)

	Australia: Families face collective punishment after gang rape sentences
		The unprecedented 55-year jail sentence of 21-year-old Bilal Skaf for a series of gang rapes in August 2000 in the Australian state of New South Wales, has been followed by cruel punitive measures against his parents and the relatives of other youth involved in the crime.
		Skaf, who was referred to as X during his trial, is now serving the longest jail term in Australian legal history for a non-murder case.
		Skaf’s relocation to Goulburn meant that he was not able to see his parents, or any other visitor, until September 7, three weeks after the 55-year sentence was handed down.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/oct2002/skaf-o03_prn.shtml (1726 words)

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	The Border Mail - Rapist found guilty again
		Skaf made NSW legal history after he was given a record 55-year sentence for leading a string of vicious gang rapes, which included the Gosling Park attack, in Sydney’s south-west in 2000.
		But the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal in 2004 quashed Skaf and AA’s convictions in relation to the Gosling Park attack and ordered a retrial after it was revealed that, during the trial, two jurors had conducted their own examination of the scene of the rape.
		The gang rape victim was not required to be in court for the Skaf retrial, and her transcript evidence from the previous trial was re-enacted for the jurors.
	www.bordermail.com.au /news/bm/national/184496.html (499 words)

	News 4th February 2005 \| OneinFour.org
		In 2002 Bilal and Mohammed Skaf were sentenced to 55 and 32 years respectively for their roles in a series of gang rapes in Sydney's south-west.
		Last year the Court of Criminal Appeal found that an unauthorised visit by two jury members to a park where one of the rapes is alleged to have taken place may have affected the verdict and therefore caused the trial to miscarry.
		Bilal Skaf's sentence was reduced by nine years and Mohammed Skaf's was reduced by eight years.
	www.oneinfour.org /news/intnews2005/retrial (472 words)

	Australia: Muslim Rape Gang Leader Smiles As He Is Sentenced
		Unfortunately, Bilal Skaf's conviction for the attack on their youngest victim, a 16-year old girl, which happened in Gosling Park, Greenacre, on August 12, 2000, was quashed in 2004.
		Mohammed Skaf was sentenced to 15 years' jail, with a minimum of seven and a half years to spent incarcerated, for his part in oranising the Gosling Park rape(s).
		Bilal Skaf tried to get Miss D to "go for a walk" with him, and when she refused he grabbed her by the hair and threw her onto the ground.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1728719/posts (5610 words)

	Are Judges Out of Touch with Community Standards? \| BlogHer
		The main offender, Bilal Skaf, was originally sentenced to 55 years in jail - the longest sentence ever handed down by a judge in New South Wales.
		Unfortunately for the victim, the jury's decision was overturned by the Court of Appeal, who ordered a new trial after it was discovered that jurors had gone to the scene of the original crime to conduct their own experiment.
		Bilal Skaf was resentenced today to a minimum of 32 years non-parole and a maximum of 38.
	blogher.org /node/8297 (453 words)

	Gang Rape Only Worth 28 Years Imprisonment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		After Skaf was sentenced to fifty-five years imprisonment his jail sentence was reduced to forty-six after the prison term for one victim was scrapped.
		Skaf is now twenty four years old so when he is released from jail it will only make him fifty two years old, not too old to rape again.
		Skaf’s brother Mohammed who is now twenty two will be released in eleven years, he will be even younger and to commit again.
	www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/sept/article266.html (801 words)

	Gang rapist Skaf's sentence extended. 28/07/2006. ABC News Online
		Convicted gang rapist Bilal Skaf will spend at least another 10 years in jail after he was today sentenced for the sexual assault of a teenage girl in south-western Sydney six years ago.
		Skaf is already serving a lengthy sentence for a series of rapes in the same area.
		Acting Justice Jane Mathews today sentenced Bilal Skaf to a maximum of 31 years for the offences.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200607/s1699525.htm (197 words)

	Fahad - December 15th, 2005
		In 2002, Lebanese Muslim Bilal Skaf was convicted of organising gang rapes of Australian girls on three separate occasions.
		With Skaf and his brother in prison, the media dogged the rest of the family.
		When one of the three verdicts was overturned on a technicality, nine years of Skaf's sentence had to be set aside.
	fashraf.livejournal.com /2005/12/15 (1105 words)

	Israellycool :: The Lights Are On - But Nobody's Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Two brothers who allegedly gang raped a 16-year-old girl, and who previously claimed that they were victims of a police conspiracy, have had their convictions overturned, due to what very well may have been a juror conspiracy.
		Mohammed Skaf is serving a maximum of 32 years behind bars.
		Bilal Skaf's sentence will be reduced by nine years and Mohammed's by eight years pending the outcome of the retrial.
	www.israellycool.com /blog/_archives/2004/5/6/146802.html (450 words)

	The World Today - Court orders new trial for gang rapists due to juror misconduct
		This morning Sydney gang rapists Bilal Skaf and his brother Mohammed Skaf have had one of their convictions quashed after jury members took it upon themselves to visit the scene of the crime and conduct experiments.
		In 2002 Bilal Skaf was sentenced to 55 years jail while Mohamed Skaf was ordered to spend 32 years behind bars over a series of gang rapes in Sydney's south-west in the lead up to the 2000 Olympic Games.
		In March of this year it emerged that two jurors in one of the trials had, against instruction, gone to the scene of the alleged crime to assess lighting conditions at night.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2004/s1102692.htm (758 words)

	Articles about Jurors doing their own "investigation" of Sydney rape case - Prison Talk
		It has not been revealed exactly what kind of experiment they undertook but it is believed to relate to lighting in the park compared with the scene where the young woman was staked to the ground and raped, a gun also held at her head.
		One of the issues raised by Bilal Skaf's defence during the trial related to the victim's identification of him.
		Bilal Skaf has been sentenced to 55 years' jail for his role in three gang rapes of four young women in August 2000.
	www.prisontalk.com /forums/showthread.php?t=52520 (1751 words)

	Free Essay criminal law-judges,jury,law reform and law reform agencies
		The crimes of Bilal Skaf prompted the NSW Government to make gang rape punishable by life imprisonment (this was largely imposed due to pressure from women lobby groups and most of society itself).
		After the Bilal Skaf-Gang Rapes in year 2000 the NSW Government amended the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) with the Crimes Amendment (Aggravated Sexual Assault in Company) Act 2001, so that the judges could impose longer sentences.
		Bilal Skaf received 48 years imprisonment due to the fact that the horrendous offence which he committed went against the delicate moral fabrics of society and so had to have a harsher punishment imposed on the offenders so to serve justice for the community in a whole.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=29306 (5802 words)

	Bilal (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Muslim tradition, Bilal ibn Ribah was an Aksumite Ethiopian whom Muhammad chose as his muezzin, and was the first African convert to Islam
		Bilal, a neo soul musician who took his stage name from the original Bilal
		Bilal ibn al-Harith, Companion of the Prophet Muhammad
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bilal (109 words)

	News 5th February 2005 \| OneinFour.org
		Nicholas Cowdery, QC, announced on Thursday that he would not proceed with charges against Bilal and Mohammed Skaf because the victim - known as Miss D - had refused to face the ordeal of testifying again.
		The brothers were found guilty of raping the then 16-year-old girl at Greenacre in August 2000 but their 2002 conviction was quashed last year after it was revealed two jurors had conducted an experiment at the crime scene.
		As a result, Bilal Skaf's jail term of 55 years for three rapes was cut to 46 years and his brother's 32-year term for his role in two of the rapes was cut to 24 years.
	www.oneinfour.org /news/intnews2005/law (684 words)

	Spero News: Australia: Muslim mufti says women encourage rape
		The ringleaders, Bilal and Mohammed Skaf were handed down lengthy prison sentences on July 28.
		He referred to the Sydney gang-rapes, he explained, to illustrate the point that Bilal Skaf was guilty and worthy of receiving his harsh sentence.
		On August 15 2002 Skaf was given a 55 year jail-term, but this July he was sentenced to a minimum of 11 years' jail to add to an existing sentence of 22 years' jail.
	www.speroforum.com /site/print.asp?idarticle=6306 (1180 words)

	History News Network
		In 2000 a gang of callous youths, led by a Lebanese “Muslim” named Bilal Skaf along with his brother, brutally gang-raped a number of women in Sydney.
		Bilal is currently serving a 32-year prison sentence for his role.
		Sheikh al-Hilali is not condoning rape, and he has spoken out against the criminal actions of Bilal and his cohort, but his embarrassing rhetoric from the minbar perpetuates an attitude that some men cannot stop themselves from raping when they see female flesh.
	hnn.us /roundup/comments/31262.html (1458 words)

	The Daily Grind Network
		The programme, which will initially focus on convicted rapist Bilal Skaf, will involve the editing of thousands of hours of surveillance video tape.
		When an officer hand-delivered a letter to Baria Skaf, telling her that she would not be able to visit her son for two years, video cameras were not present.
		Skaf was banned from visiting her son after attempting to smuggle a love letter out of the prison.
	www.thedailygrind.net /news/content.php?id=92_0_8_0 (344 words)

	Garowe Online - Islam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The leader of the 2000 rapes in Sydney's southwest, Bilal Skaf, a Muslim, was initially sentenced to 55 years' jail, but later had the sentence reduced on appeal.
		In the religious address on adultery to about 500 worshippers in Sydney last month, Sheik Hilali said: "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it...
		Sheik Hilali also insisted his references to the Sydney gang rapes were to illustrate that Skaf was guilty and worthy of receiving such a harsh sentence.
	www.garoweonline.com /stories/publish/article_5671.shtml (844 words)

	ABS-CBN Interactive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Both Omran and Hilaly were referring to a sentence handed down to the leader of a gang of Sydney rapists, Bilal Skaf, jailed for a series of organized pack rapes in Sydney in 2000.
		Skaf was sentenced to 55 years in prison for leading a gang of men in a series of rapes on Sydney women.
		Hilaly was hospitalized on Monday and has stood aside indefinitely from his position at Sydney's largest mosque.
	www.abs-cbnnews.com /storyPage.aspx?storyId=54789 (972 words)

	SciForums.com - Yay justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Well, it looks like the prison guards are having some fun.
		CONVICTED gang rapist Bilal Skaf is being investigated for allegedly bashing himself up in order to accuse prison officers of assault.
		Skaf, 21, is serving a maximum 55 years sentence for his role as the leader of three pack rapes in Sydney's south-west two years ago.
	www.sciforums.com /printthread.php?t=14690 (92 words)

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