K brothers gang rapists: One of four notorious brothers could walk from jail

One of four notorious gang rapist brothers could be freed from jail 18 years after he and his three brothers’ reign of terror over girls as young as 13

One of four notorious gang rapist brothers will be freed from jail 18 years after he and his three brothers’ reign of terror over young women in a Sydney suburb.

The four “K Brothers”, who were recent Pakistani immigrants to Australia, committed a series of brutal rapes and indecent assaults with girls as young as 14 in the western Sydney suburb of Ashfield over six months.

The brother who the NSW State Parole Authority (SPA) has announced it intends to grant parole to is known as MAK and was 22 at the time of the gang rapes.

He and his brothers MSK, then aged 23, MRK then aged 17 and MMK, 16, were the immigrant sons of a doctor who had emigrated to Australia leaving his wife and family behind.

The four brothers and a Nepali student Ram Shrestha, who later hanged himself in prison, began their rape rampage in January 2002.

Just 16 months earlier another set of brothers, Bilal and Mohammed Skaf, had committed with others the equally infamous Skaf gang rapes before the Sydney Olympics.

Two sisters, 18 and 16, were taken to the K brothers’ Ashfield house where MAK indecently assaulted the younger one and MRK robbed her.

In February 2002, MAK and a brother took three girls to the house where he and MSK repeatedly raped one girl.

One of the victims of the notorious K Brothers gang rapists attends a court hearing.

The house at Ashfield, Sydney where the brothers carried out the gang rapes of underage girls.

In July that year, MSK raped a 13-year-old girl and in the same month two girls aged 16 and 17 were lured, threatened at knifepoint and sexually assaulted by the five rapists.

One of the victims was told that the other had been killed because she had resisted orders.

MAK was sentenced to 19 years for his part in the gang sex offences committed in 2002.

SPA has listed MAK’s case for a public review hearing in court, on a date to be fixed, to allow for possible submissions to be made from the state and victims.

Considering the matter at a closed meeting today, the SPA panel accepted the recommendations of Community Corrections and the Serious Offenders Review Council (SORC) supporting MAK’s release to parole.

With 15 months left on his sentence, the SORC stated it was “imperative” MAK, be supervised on parole for as long as possible, to avoid releasing him without any supervision at all.

Now aged 40, MAK has been eligible for parole since July 2016.

Among its reasons for forming the intention to grant parole, SPA said the offender had “demonstrated satisfactory prison performance” and it was his first and only period of incarceration.

SPA said MAK had participated in relevant programs or counselling to address his offending behaviour. MAK is subject to ongoing psychiatric supervision, on medication and needed a period of supervision in the community.

“The Authority considered the risk to community safety is increased if the offender is to be released at the end of the sentence without a period of supervised parole,” SPA said in a statement.

Following his sons’ incarceration for he rapes, the brothers father died and their mother emigrated to Australia where she is believed to be living in Sydney.

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