Four Pakistani brothers convicted of gang raping two teenaged girls in a Sydney suburb have been given jail sentences ranging from 10 to 22 years.
Sentencing Judge Brian Sully jailed the four for repeatedly raping the two girls aged 16 and 17 at knife point at the brothers' family home in the suburb of Ashfield in July 2002.
While the two girls were "foolish" to have gone to the house with the men, it did not excuse the violent attacks upon them, he ruled. He also dismissed arguments that the rapes could have been the result of cultural differences between the girls and the assailants.A fifth man convicted over the attacks had committed suicide in jail last week.
The cuplrits cannot be identified except by their initials as the two younger brothers were aged under 18 at the time of the crime.
Twenty-five-year-old MS-K and 17-year-old MN-K, who committed most of the rapes, were given 22 years jail with a non-parole period of 16 years and 13 years. MA-K, 23 was sentenced to 16 years in jail with a non-parole period of 12 years and 19-year-old MR-K, who did not commit any of the assaults, was given a sentence of 10 years with a non-parole period of five years.
The four men were found guilty of nine counts each of aggravated sexual assault by a New South Wales Supreme Court jury in late 2003.
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