The ex-girlfriend of one of Australia’s worst gang rapists, Mohammed Skaf, grabbed her $3,000 purse as she avoided jail for intimidating her ex-lover and smuggling drugs into prison.
Alexandra Mastropetros faced Bankstown Local Court for sentencing after pleading guilty to stalking and intimidating Skaf and smuggling $100,000 worth of illicit drugs into prison.
Wearing a white tank top, black pants and stilettos, the 32-year-old carried a $3,000 Yves Saint Laurent bag as she faced court alongside her husband.
Skaf was the ringleader of a series of notorious gang rapes in Sydney’s southwest in 2000, and was jailed along with his brother Bilal and several others.
When he was released after almost 22 years behind bars, Skaf and Mastropetros began their brief relationship.
Alexandra Mastropetros appeared at Bankstown Local Court for sentencing after pleading guilty to stalking and intimidating her ex-boyfriend and convicted gang rapist Mohammed Skaf.
According to court documents, the 32-year-old woman began her relationship with Skaf in January 2023, which lasted just a few months.
She admitted bullying Skaf in Greenacre in May last year, calling him during a heated phone call to “strongly suggest” he withdraw a statement.
“The defendant and the victim were in an intimate relationship between January 2023 and March 2023,” the court documents said.
“On May 16, the victim made a statement to police in relation to being extorted for $20,000.”
Court documents revealed that Mastropetros was “well known” to Skaf and knew his associates well.
After giving a statement to police, Skaf received a phone call from a private number with Mastropetros on the other end of the line.
He recorded the conversation.
“Why are you calling me to withdraw a statement? It has nothing to do with you,” Skaf said, according to court documents.
Mohammed Skaf was the ringleader of a series of notorious gang rapes in Sydney’s southwest in 2000, and was jailed along with his brother Bilal and several others.
But Mastropetros said she wasn’t telling him to take it down, just “strongly suggesting” he do so.
“That’s snitching, you’re not going to snitch,” he said.
“You have been in prison for 21 years. You should know how to do it.
Mastropetros said to stop ‘barking hayawem’ (which means animal in Arabic).
He then said he was Sydney’s “biggest snitch”.
“If you don’t go and take back this damn statement… I promise you under oath to Allah and I’m going to go and fuck up your life,” he said.
The phone call ended with Mastropetros telling Skaf to fuck off.
Court documents said Skaf feared for his life and believed Mastropetros was going to send someone to his home to cause serious harm to him or his family.
She also admitted an unrelated charge of supplying a prohibited drug after she was caught with 4.86 grams of methamphetamine, worth a total of about $100,000.
According to court documents, police found drug-filled balloons in her Louis Vuitton bag when they stopped her rental car as she entered the Hunter Correctional Center in Cessnock in January.
She was visiting her ex-fiancé at the time and told police she had bought 100 strips of buprenorphine at a Punchbowl gas station to help her calm down.
The strips he told police he paid $240 for were later identified as being worth $1,000 per strip, with a total value of $100,000 inside the prison.
Mastropetros told police he had visited the prison for three months.
“When police stated that she must have been well aware of the visitation procedures and restrictions at the time, the defendant did not respond,” court documents say.
Mastropetros is seen outside the courthouse in November with her husband, who raised the middle finger to the media.
Magistrate Glenn Walsh said there was “significant criminality” in the 33-year-old’s offending.
“Of course, this must be considered objectively serious; to approach it otherwise would be to ignore what is relevant in criminal circles,” he said.
He told the court that using the word “dog” or “snitch” to Skaf would have “created real fear” in him.
The magistrate acknowledged that Mastropetros had suffered severe post-traumatic stress disorder and that his antisocial peers influenced him to engage in criminal behavior.
While he said the offender crossed the threshold to go to prison, he said Mastropetros was not an appropriate person to be placed in full-time custody.
She was sentenced to an Intensive Correctional Order for 18 months, which is a prison sentence that must be served in the community.
Walsh warned Mastropetros that if she did not comply with orders, she would be sent to prison.
There is also an arrest warrant for violence for two years against Skaf.