Four men involved in the gang rape of a terrified woman one of them met on Tinder will together spend almost two decades behind bars for their crimes.
The sexual assault occurred in April 2022 in the bedroom of the woman, who cannot legally be named, after she agreed to meet Adam Ahamd Kabbout, 26, whom she found on the dating app.
After letting Kabbout into her home and taking a shower, she found three other men she didn’t know in her living room in Belmore, in Sydney’s southwest.
Kabbout did not participate in the rape, but encouraged his friends Omar El-Sayed, 25, Mohammed Ali, 22, and Rami Katlan, 26, to do it.
He gave instructions as the others entered the room one at a time to sexually assault the woman over a terrifying period of 15 minutes.
At one point, Katlan used his cell phone to record a short video of Ali raping the victim.
“It’s okay, your loss,” Kabbout said before he and the others left the house after the woman said she didn’t want to continue.
The four men were sentenced on Friday in the Downing Center District Court by Judge Leonie Flannery, who acknowledged the “devastating effects” the crimes had on the woman.
The sexual assault occurred in April 2022 in the bedroom of the woman, who cannot legally be named, after she agreed to meet Adam Ahamd Kabbout, 26 (pictured), whom she found on the app dating.
“She accepted because she was afraid,” the judge said.
In a victim impact statement read to the judge in October, she described feeling constant distrust, fear and bitterness, and her nights were haunted by flashbacks of the rape.
“I’m afraid of everything, I’m afraid of the world, I’m afraid of other people, I find danger in everything…no one understands what it really means to have all your power taken away,” he said. saying.
In September, a jury found the four men guilty of various sexual crimes.
As a facilitator, Kabbout was convicted of four counts of aggravated corporate sexual assault.
In front of a courtroom full of family members and other supporters of the four men, Judge Flannery said Kabbout’s crime was less serious than the others because he had not actually participated in the physical sexual assault.
Kabbout did not take part in the rape but encouraged his friends Omar El-Sayed, 25, Mohammed Ali, 22, and Rami Katlan, 26, (pictured) to do it.
Omar El-Sayed (pictured) was sentenced to a maximum prison sentence of five years and two months for two counts of sexual intercourse without consent.
However, because he was found guilty of four charges, he was sentenced to a maximum of six years and six months in prison.
His non-parole period of three years and three months was retroactive to July 23, 2023 and will expire on October 22, 2026.
El-Sayed was sentenced to a maximum prison sentence of five years and two months for two counts of sexual intercourse without consent.
His non-parole period of two years and seven months means he will be eligible to be released from prison on April 2, 2027.
Ali was also found guilty of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent, but due to his mental immaturity he was only sentenced to four years and two months.
He received a 25-month non-parole period set to expire on October 2, 2026.
Judge Flannery concluded that Kabbout, El-Sayed and Ali knew the victim had not given consent.
He found that Katlan did not have this knowledge, but was reckless as to whether the woman wanted to have sex with him or not.
Mohammed Ali (pictured) was also convicted of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent, but due to his mental immaturity he was only sentenced to four years and two months.
For this, he received a maximum prison sentence of 30 months after being found guilty of a single count of sexual intercourse without consent.
He will be eligible for parole after spending 15 months behind bars on March 1, 2027.
In sentencing the four men, Judge Flannery highlighted their youth at the time of the sexual assault, their mental anguish while in custody and their lack of criminal records.
Each had good prospects for rehabilitation and a low probability of reoffending, he said.
Both Kabbout and El-Sayed maintain their innocence.
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