Sydney gang rapists reveal why they wanted to be freed from prison

Two gang rapists will remain behind bars after their bid for freedom was rejected by a court on Friday.

Two men who drugged and raped a teen at a western Sydney house during a horror marathon ordeal following her school formal have failed in their bid to be freed from prison early.

Ruhi Dagdanasar and Ali Irmak on Friday had their appeals dismissed by the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal after their arguments, that their sentences for the nightmare November 2016 incident were unfair and excessive, were rejected.

Irmak can now be named for the first time after the court lifted a non-publication order on his name.

Two years ago they were sentenced for the repeated rape of an 18-year-old student following her school formal.

The girl was heavily intoxicated following a formal after-party and was waiting in a gutter when the men’s friend lured her into a car.

She reported being raped by the driver, Mustafa Yasser-Basoglu, before she was taken to a Glenwood house where the horror assault continued.

There she was made to inhale methylamphetamine from a pipe and given drinks spiked with GHB as Dagdanasar and Irmak took turns raping her over a 12-hour period.

The court heard horrifying details of how the men anally, orally and vaginally raped the woman and cheered each other on.

The men made several videos during the assault which were played during their trial.

“Contrary to the contention of Irmak that the videos somehow proved her consent, it shows an exposed young woman barely able to hold her head up, under the complete control of older men whom she does not know, being manipulated into positions at their will,” Justices Peter Johnson, Helen Wilson and Richard Cavanagh said in a judgment on Friday.

“ … Such conduct must have had an additional degrading effect. Its callousness should be plain even on that brief description.”

Ruhi Dagdanasar. Picture: Facebook

While she was being fed drugs, the men made comments to the effect of, “this stuff makes you so horny” and “we’re all so horny”.

She eventually escaped about 6pm later that day – some 14 hours after she was taken to the house – after texting her sister.

“You‘re welcome back here anytime, babe,” Dagdanasar said as the girl left.

The court heard that in the days after the assault Dagdanasar sent the girl a Facebook friend request.

A week after the assault, police caught up with Irmak and Dagdanasar at a Brighton-Le-Sands hotel which they had been staying at under a false name.

During a police interview they claimed they had video to “prove” the repeated sexual assault was consensual and Irmak complained that one of the investigating officers was “ruining his life”.

After pleading not guilty, Dagdanasar and Irmak were found guilty of six counts of sexual intercourse without consent and found not guilty of another four charges.

Yasser-Basoglu did not stand trial, having evaded arrest by fleeing to Turkey.

Dagdanasar was sentenced to 24 years in jail, with a 16-year non-parole period, meaning he won’t see the outside world until at least November 2032.

While Irmak was jailed for 26 years with 18 years’ non-parole.

The pair appealed their verdicts and sentences on several grounds, claiming the rapes were consensual, the girl had voluntarily taken ice and she was not as intoxicated as she had claimed.

Dagdanasar claimed several of the verdicts were unreasonable and Irmak claimed his sentence was excessive.

The court heard the pair were both at conditional liberty at the time – Irmak was on a good behaviour bond while Dagdanasar was on parole.

Justices Johnson, Wilson and Cavanagh dismissed their appeals on all grounds, finding there were a number of aggravating factors to the brutal and repeated rapes, and that Irmak had at no point displayed any remorse.

“It is unsurprising that no submission was made that Irmak had shown any remorse,” they said in their judgment.

“The cross-examination (of the victim) was both needlessly protracted, and brutal, and is demonstrative of Irmak’s attitude to his victim, and complete lack of insight.”