‘Vicious’ Wei Feng jailed for 14 years for rape of sex workers and abducting woman

A “vicious” and “cowardly” rapist who abducted a woman walking home and also terrorised sex workers acted in a bizarre way when sentenced.

A vicious and cowardly rapist who abducted a woman off the street and terrorised sex workers in Melbourne made threatening motions during his sentence.

Wei Feng made slashing motions with his arms, shook his head and appeared to fall asleep at his sentencing hearing in the County Court of Victoria on Monday.

The 50-year-old was jailed for 14 years for the attacks on three sex workers in St Kilda and another woman – not a sex worker – whom he grabbed off a street in Sunshine.

He was found guilty of multiple counts of rape, sexual assault, false imprisonment and causing injury against the women after a trial.

The attacks against the women were “vicious, cowardly and revolting”, Judge Frank Gucciardo said.

Feng treated the women as “objects for your perverted and abhorrent sexual wishes”, the judge said.

Judge Gucciardo also slammed a 56-page letter that Feng addressed to the court and said it was “irrelevant and self-serving”.

“Except to show you are only focused on yourself and unrepentant,” the judge said.

Feng attacked the four women between 2014 and 2017 and was subjected to a police notice banning him from St Kilda.

One woman – who was not a sex worker – was attacked at Sunshine as she walked from a friend’s home in 2017. She had never met Feng before when he spotted her on the street.

She was dragged into Feng’s car, driven to a secluded area where she was strangled, slapped, raped and ordered to “do what she was told”.

The woman was able to escape and two cyclists found her on the ground screaming for help, the court was told.

Other victims were vulnerable sex workers whom Feng targeted while cruising around St Kilda. He treated them with “utter contempt”, the judge said.

When one woman was leaning into Feng’s Suzuki Swift, he handcuffed her and dragged the woman alongside his car near Greeves St in 2016.

At his pre-sentence hearing last month, Feng railed that he was the victim of a conspiracy and “police corruption”.

The judge said Feng’s prospects of rehabilitation were bleak, he showed no remorse and labelled his lack of co-operation with the legal process as a major factor for the delay in his case.

Feng must spend at least 10 years behind bars before he is eligible for parole.