District Court judge labels serial woman attacker and Afghan refugee Aliyawar Yawari a ‘danger to the Australian community’
AN AFGHAN refugee who bashed a woman before attacking two others in their home has become a “danger to the Australian community”, a District Court judge has found.
AN AFGHAN refugee who bashed a woman before attacking two others in their home has become a “danger to the Australian community”, a District Court judge has found.
Aliyawar Yawari attacked three women between October 2013 and December 2014 and was charged with aggravated assault and rape over the first incident in a rural SA town.
Yawari, 58, punched the victim repeatedly in the face before having sex with her and was convicted of assault but acquitted of rape at trial.
District Court judge Paul Cuthbertson said the victim continued to suffer from the unprovoked attack.
“She says that she was once a free-and-easy person, accepting most people and cultures but is now somewhat less trusting of others, especially men,” he said. Judge Cuthbertson said Yawari had committed two subsequent offences in which he entered the home of an elderly woman and smashed windows and kicked doors.
He received a suspended prison term for that offence but just two months later attacked a 64-year old woman in her home by indecently assaulting her then hitting her in the neck with a walking stick.
Judge Cuthbertson said it was clear that Yawari posed an ongoing risk to women.
“This is now the third offence involving a lone elderly woman with sexual overtones to it. The offender is making himself a danger to the Australian community,” he said.
Before Yawari, originally from Afghanistan, was granted asylum he fled Pakistan in 2010 after his father and brother were killed.
“He has since been advised by family members that two of his daughters have been abducted by the Taliban and have not been seen in some time,” Judge Cuthbertson said.
The court heard it was likely that Yawari would be deported from Australia at the expiration of his prison term.
Judge Cuthbertson revoked Yawari’s previous suspended sentences and imposed a total head sentence for all offences of three years and 11 months, with a non-parole period of two years and eight months.