article_snippet.sent: The 23-year-old privileged son of Andrew Lazarus, the owner of the venue in Sydney’s Kings Cross, was jailed for at least three years for the crime on March 27.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Huggett informed police the next morning who seized CCTV footage from the venue which confirmed Lazarus led the victim into the alleyway.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Huggett said Lazarus came from a privileged upbringing and had an inflated sense of entitlement and power when Lazarus was at the Soho.
article_snippet.sent: But Judge Huggett found Lazarus had good prospects of rehabilitation, was unlikely to reoffend and was suffering from an adjustment disorder due to a break-up in the weeks prior to the offence.
article_snippet.sent: Lazarus will be eligible for release in March 2018.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Huggett said Lazarus, a South Sydney Rabbitohs fan, came from a privileged upbringing .
article_snippet.sent: Lazarus told the court that attending Lazarus father's clubs gave Lazarus an 'inflated sense of power and entitlement.'
article_snippet.sent: The 23-year-old was allegedly seeing an American woman but ended the relationship due to Lazarus parent's disapproval of an American woman not being Greek.
article_snippet.sent: After Lazarus's sentencing a series of prominent public figures in the local community spoke out in Lazarus defence with character references.
article_snippet.sent: Waverley mayor Sally Betts, the honorary secretary of the Honorary Consulate-General of Greece in Brisbane, Tsambico K Athanasas, South Sydney Rabbitohs rugby league club chairman Nick Pappas and the parish priest at the Greek Orthodox Christian Church of St George, Rose Bay, Father Gerasimos Koutsouras, spoke out to support Lazarus.
highlights_snippet.sent: Luke Lazarus is the son of the Sydney venue's owner Andrew Lazarus .
  