Nemesis
04-15-2004, 08:30 PM
April 16, 2004
A CONVICTED gang rapist has killed himself in a Sydney prison himself just a week before being sentenced for his crime.
The man, who along with four brothers gang raped two teenaged girls in 2002 was found dead in his cell on Wednesday by another prisoner.
A Corrective Services spokesman says the man, who can only be referred to as RS has been found hanging in his prison cell at Long Bay metropolitan medical transit centre at 8am (AEST) on Wednesday.
The 26-year-old had been in the cell on his own and was found by a prisoner doing the daily milk run.
The prisoner alerted authorities.
The spokesman says there had been no suggestion RS was a suicide risk.
RS had pleaded not guilty to gang raping the two girls in the home of his friends, who are brothers, at Ashfield in Sydney's inner-west on July 28, 2002.
But a New South Wales Supreme Court jury late last year found RS and the four brothers, now aged between 17 and 26, guilty of pack-raping the girls.
During sentencing submissions RS said he had not told his parents in Nepal that he was in jail or that he had been charged with gang rape.
The other four men will be sentenced next Thursday. A mandatory coronial inquest will be held into RS's death.
AAP
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A CONVICTED gang rapist has killed himself in a Sydney prison himself just a week before being sentenced for his crime.
The man, who along with four brothers gang raped two teenaged girls in 2002 was found dead in his cell on Wednesday by another prisoner.
A Corrective Services spokesman says the man, who can only be referred to as RS has been found hanging in his prison cell at Long Bay metropolitan medical transit centre at 8am (AEST) on Wednesday.
The 26-year-old had been in the cell on his own and was found by a prisoner doing the daily milk run.
The prisoner alerted authorities.
The spokesman says there had been no suggestion RS was a suicide risk.
RS had pleaded not guilty to gang raping the two girls in the home of his friends, who are brothers, at Ashfield in Sydney's inner-west on July 28, 2002.
But a New South Wales Supreme Court jury late last year found RS and the four brothers, now aged between 17 and 26, guilty of pack-raping the girls.
During sentencing submissions RS said he had not told his parents in Nepal that he was in jail or that he had been charged with gang rape.
The other four men will be sentenced next Thursday. A mandatory coronial inquest will be held into RS's death.
AAP
news.com.au (http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9295737%255E2,00.html)