The new wife of a gang rapist, who stood by her man when he was convicted of his heinous crime, has been forced to raise her new baby without him, away from her $2.5 million mansion.
Healthcare worker Loubna Yousif, 29, married her first cousin, lawyer Maurice Hawell, 23, in April 2022 during a lavish wedding attended by friends and family.
At the time, the young girlfriend had no idea that, just weeks earlier, he had been involved in the gang rape of three teenage girls in Newcastle, New South Wales.
The dark secret was revealed when her new husband was arrested just weeks after the ceremony, followed shortly after by his best man, his younger brother Marius and best man Andrew David.
Ms Yousif, who still wears her wedding ring, now shares a cramped granny annexe with her parents and many other family members in western Sydney.
It’s a far cry from what she promised at the beginning of her married life, including her husband’s lawyer’s salary and her wedding filled with glitzy details like designer clothes and luxury cars.
The victims, two aged 18 and one aged 19, told the court they were raped in a dark bedroom by men including Maurice Hawell, Marius Hawell and Andrew David after returning to an Airbnb rented for Maurice’s party in February 2022.
A few weeks later, Marius and David stood by Hawell as he married Loubna and then posed for photos with the happy couple.
Loubna Yousif, 29, had to raise her new baby as a single mother after her husband Maurice Hawell was sentenced to a long jail term for raping three girls on their night out.
Yousif had no idea her husband would be arrested just weeks after their fairytale wedding (above) for his role in the gang rape of three teenage girls.
Above is Hawell’s wedding party in April 2022, just 36 days after the rapes. Among those in attendance were her fellow gang rapists, her brother Marius (circled, center) and Andrew David (circled, back).
Loubna wore a beautiful hand-embroidered “princess” dress by Steven Khalil at the ceremony held at her former five-bedroom home in Sydney’s southwest, which featured a convoy of luxury cars, including a $500,000 McLaren 720S convertible .
Hawell was arrested and charged the following month, while Marius and David were arrested in June 2022.
After claiming the sexual relationship was consensual, Hawell spent thousands of dollars on his legal defense to force the newlyweds to sell their dream home in October 2022.
Daily Mail Australia can reveal the couple welcomed a baby boy earlier this year before Hawall was jailed in November for 14 years in prison with a non-parole period of eight years and six months.
David was sentenced to 13 years in prison with a non-parole period of seven years and nine months and Marius was sentenced to nine years in prison with a non-parole period of five years and five months.
Loubna wrote a letter to the courts explaining that she was “heartbroken” by her husband’s “infidelity” but said she simply did not believe he was capable of committing “monstrous acts.”
She pleaded with the court not to separate her husband from his family and to consider the impact this would have on their lives.
Ms Yousif was recently seen clutching a designer bag and wearing her wedding ring.
Yousif wrote a letter to the judge saying she was heartbroken by his infidelity but simply couldn’t believe he was capable of committing what he was convicted of. Together, up
“The discovery of Maurice’s infidelity was deeply painful for me and went against the core values of our relationship,” she wrote.
He added: “Despite the infidelity, I decided to forgive Maurice for this mistake, recognizing that it was a breach of our relationship, but not a reflection of his entire character.”
“And although it broke my heart to discover Maurice’s infidelity, I never, not for a single moment, believed that he would be capable of committing the monstrous acts described in those documents,” she wrote in her letter to the court.
Yousif still drives a high-end Lexus and sports a Louis Vuitton bag, but looked sad when he was out with his family pushing his stroller through the local shopping center last week.
When Daily Mail Australia asked Mrs Yousif if she still supported her husband despite the lengthy prison sentence, she declined to comment.
Handing down their sentences earlier this year, New South Wales District Court Judge Gina O’Rourke described the Hawell brothers and David as “highly educated, intelligent and Successful young professionals who come from loving Christian families, who treat their own sisters, mothers and colleagues with respect and love.’
But she added: ‘And yet this weekend they were able, with pack mentality, to treat three young women in this cold, callous, degrading and criminal manner.’