Three males have been discovered responsible of luring three girls to be gang-raped in an condominium they have been renting for a buck’s celebration weekend.
Maurice Hawell, 30, his brother Marius Hawell, 22, and Andrew David, 30, have been hit with the verdicts on Monday after an virtually four-week-long trial in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court docket.
The trio stayed with seven different males at an Airbnb in Newcastle over a weekend in February 2022 forward of groom Maurice Hawell’s marriage ceremony.
Jurors heard the boys met three teenage girls at a close-by pub and individually invited them again to the unit.
After having consensual intercourse, two 18-year-old victims went to retrieve their telephones from a darkened bed room the place they have been pushed onto the mattress, stripped and “swarmed” by bare males, crown prosecutor Craig Evans beforehand stated.
Describing precisely who carried out which sexual act was not possible as a result of the room was darkish, however prosecutors alleged the three males have been engaged in a joint felony settlement to rape and sexually contact the ladies.
On the next evening, a 19-year-old stated she entered the condominium on the pretext of drinks however was raped by Maurice Hawell and David, who took turns swapping sexual positions.
Marius Hawell got here into the room and watched, Mr Evans instructed the courtroom.
On Monday after eight-and-a-half hours of deliberations, the jury reached unanimous verdicts on 9 of the 11 counts towards the boys.
All three have been discovered responsible of a number of counts of aggravated sexual assault in firm referring to all three girls and of aggravated sexual touching and the tried aggravated sexual assault of 1 lady.
The jury will proceed their deliberations for the 2 remaining costs of tried sexual touching towards Maurice Hawell and aggravated sexual assault in firm referring to all three males.
