Serial rapist Mustafa Kayirici’s plea to court
A violent child rapist with terminal brain cancer has asked a judge to ease his prison restrictions pleading: “Time is not on my side, your honour”.
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A violent child rapist with terminal brain cancer has asked a judge to ease his prison restrictions pleading: “Time is not on my side, your honour”.
Mustafa Kayirici, who appeared in NSW Supreme Court on Wednesday via video link from Long Bay Hospital, was sentenced last year to 38 years in prison for several vile attacks on women, which included the terrifying rape of a schoolgirl in 2016.
Over five hours, he raped the girl at knifepoint and filmed her, before threatening: “If you tell anyone, I will release those videos. How would you like it if your dad saw that?”
Representing himself, the 31-year-old told the court he only had three to six months left to live.
He asked Justice Geoffrey Bellew if he could see his teenage sister in person.
Kayirici told the court he was allowed to see his mother in person before restrictions tightened, but he was only allowed to talk to his sister via AVL, for her safety.
“You know time is not on my side, your honour, to be real. It has now spread to my lymph nodes, blood and brain,” Kayirici told the court.
“I’d appreciate The Commissioner to allow me to see my sister...and to go to contact visits if I’m simply on my deathbed. I would like this granted on compassionate grounds.”
But Clare Palmer, representing Corrective Services Commissioner Peter Severin, told the court her client could not approve contact visits for any prisoner, with current Covid-19 prison restrictions.
“Your honour, that‘s the case for all inmates at the moment...no inmate can have a personal visit. Unfortunately, with the present circumstances it is the best outcome at the moment,” Ms Palmer told the court.
Kayirici asked Justice Bellew to make a recommendation to Commissioner Severin to allow him personal visits on compassionate grounds if restrictions ease.
Justice Bellew dismissed the application, telling Kayirici he could make an application at that time.
Kayirici has spent the past 16 months in the prison hospital.
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