Sydney rapist who tried to send a hitman after his teenage victim finishes his 19-year prison sentence

A man who assaulted a teenager in 2003 and then tried to have her killed by a hitman is out of prison.

A Sydney rapist who tried to send a hitman after his teenage victim has completed his 19-year prison sentence.

Khater “Kevin” Bou-Antoun shocked NSW in March 2003 when he and a friend forced themselves on a 16-year-old girl several times behind a club in North Bondi.

The two had separated their victim from her friend and taken her phone, taunting her by saying they would get less prison time if they killed her and dumped her body.

Police arrested Bou-Antoun shortly afterwards, but the girl was still not safe from him.

This laneway adjoining the North Bondi RSL is believed to be where Khater ‘Kevin’ Bou-Antoun and a friend sexually assaulted a teenage girl in March 2003.

From the confines of Silverwater Prison, a 19-year-old Bou-Antoun tried to organise her death by asking his cellmate to pass her details to a hitman.

However, the cellmate instead gave the information to the police.

A bug planted in Bou-Antoun’s cell caught him planning to pay $23,000 to have the girl killed, while an undercover police officer later visited him in jail posing as a hired killer.

Bou-Antoun told the “hit man” to “pop her in the stomach” and that he wanted her “to feel lots of pain”.

He later pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault and solicit to murder.

Now, nearly two decades later, the 37-year-old Bou-Antoun has completed his custodial sentence.

However, he is likely to face years of strict supervision requirements as he attempts to integrate back into society.

NSW prosecutors want Bou-Antoun to be placed under an extended five-year supervision order under the High Risk Offenders Act. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Bianca De Marchi

Bou-Antoun has been on parole for a year already and has been subject to strict interim supervision orders which, among several other conditions, require him to wear an ankle monitor and to keep authorities abreast of his movements days in advance.

State prosecutors have been pushing for Bou-Antoun to be placed under an extended supervision order under the High Risk Offenders Act, with forensic psychological reports presented to court detailing the risk he still poses to the public.

While both the state of NSW and Bou-Antoun’s legal representatives agree that further supervision will be required, the parties are now hashing out just how harsh those conditions will be.

The Crown’s Anders Mykkeltvedt in the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday continued to push for a five-year supervision order to be granted due to “chronic” risk factors which would “very likely” mean the two-year order as proposed by Bou-Antoun’s defence would need to be extended anyway.

The prosecution is also seeking to continue to monitor Bou-Antoun electronically and have him report his schedule to authorities, while maintaining a ban on him consuming alcohol or taking drugs.

Bou-Antoun in 2003 tried to organise his rape victim’s death from prison, asking his cellmate to pass her details to a hitman.

Defence representative Kellie Stares told Justice Peter Garling on Thursday that the picture of Bou-Antoun now was a more positive one, and hence a lesser level of monitoring was required.

The court heard Bou-Antoun has “been going well” despite significant mental health issues, and that he has stable accommodation, disability support funding and an ongoing community treatment order.

Ms Stares said he would certainly benefit from employment and mentioned that Bou-Antoun had been training to be a plumber before his arrest in 2003.

“It is the defendant's submission that it is time for the peeling off of the various layers (of restrictions) to commence,” Ms Stares said.

Justice Garling made an order that Bou-Antoun be supervised as a high-risk offender for three years and then directed the parties to come together to confirm and agree to a set of terms over the coming days.

The matter will next be in court on Tuesday July 19.