"Australian culture." Using culture as an excuse disgusted the father of one victim, who was Muslim. In April 2006, the New South Wales Supreme Court increased the sentences of three of the brothers. Justice Peter Hidden added a minimum of five years to MSK's sentence and a minimum two extra years to MAK's jail term for the February and 14 July rapes. Their younger brother, MMK, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, to be served concurrently and in juvenile detention, for having sex with an underage girl on the night of one of the rapes, as well as for an indecent assault in November 2001. In October 2007, it was reported that three of the brothers were facing further rape charges. In March 2009 MRK pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault on a 15-year-old girl in 2002; he was due to be sentenced on 20 March 2009. Crimes The crimes were, in chronological order: MMK is also alleged to have indecently assaulted a 15-year-old girl, Y, in November 2001, but she did not wish to go to trial. On 12 May 2002, he allegedly indecently assaulted two other girls whom police cannot locate, molesting them while he videotaped them. After one assault, MRK allegedly made an allusion to the Sydney gang rapes by a group of Lebanese-Australian men led by Bilal Skaf. Aftermath On 9 February 2007 it was reported that the two eldest brothers had been assaulted in Goulburn Correctional Centre by a gang of eight other inmates. One was taken to Canberra Hospital with critical head injuries. Seven convicts appeared in court via videolink in March 2009 to face charges over the assault. MRK, the first of the brothers to be eligible, was granted parole by the State Parole Authority in April 2010 and released the following month. Victims called for deporting the perpetrators back to Pakistan, but legal experts considered it "highly unlikely" that revoking the brothers' Australian citizenship would be legal. MMK was paroled in June 2018, prompting another campaign for the brothers to be stripped of citizenship and deported. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton stated that he would have liked to do so, but it was not possible. See also Sydney gang rapes References 2001 crimes in Australia 2002 crimes in Australia Crime in Sydney Gang rape in Oceania Gangs in Australia Rape in Australia Child sexual abuse in Australia Incidents of violence against women 2000s