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Down Under
Rape assassination dad jailed
2006-08-25
A SYDNEY father who paid a hitman to kill a young woman raped by his son has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for what a judge described as a "cruel and callous" crime. Chaouki Bou-Antoun, now 51, pleaded guilty to one count of solicit to murder after police uncovered the vicious and brazen plot in which a hitman would be paid to kill a young woman so she could not testify against his son, Khater or “Kevin”.

“When the balance of the $23,000 fee was paid, the woman known to the court as “Rebecca” would be raped again then “popped” in the stomach, eye and forehead...”
But what he didn’t know was that as he paid a $3000 deposit was that the apparent hitman was in fact an undercover police officer. When the balance of the $23,000 fee was paid, the woman known to the court as “Rebecca” would be raped again then “popped” in the stomach, eye and forehead, the NSW District Court was told.

In sentencing Bou Antoun senior today, Judge Robert Sorby said the crime “strikes at the very heart of our system of justice”. The Lebanese-born father-of-five had told his sentencing hearing he was sorry for his role in the plan and claimed he had never intended to pay the remaining money which would ensure the murder was carried out. Judge Sorby sentenced him to 10 years' jail with an additional four years to be spent on parole. He will be elligible for release from jail in December 2013.
Posted by:Fred

#10  Only 10 yrs?! Throw that stupid judge in next to him.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2006-08-25 14:01  

#9  He thought he was still living in lebanon. Middle East is the Craddle of civilization, ya know, and there live Ancient People, Deeply Rooted, much more wise and cultured than the vulgar new countries like Australia, or even worse, the US of A...
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-08-25 13:07  

#8  Snuff this worthless b@stard's evil @ss and make it a true "honor killing".
Posted by: Zenster   2006-08-25 12:58  

#7  the woman known to the court as “Rebecca” would be raped again then “popped” in the stomach, eye and forehead

Colorful sort, isn't he?
Posted by: Thoth   2006-08-25 11:59  

#6  From the Texas Penal Code:

§ 19.03. CAPITAL MURDER. (a) A person commits an offense
if the person commits murder as defined under Section 19.02(b)(1)
and:
(1) the person murders a peace officer or fireman who
is acting in the lawful discharge of an official duty and who the
person knows is a peace officer or fireman;
(2) the person intentionally commits the murder in the
course of committing or attempting to commit kidnapping, burglary,
robbery, aggravated sexual assault, arson, obstruction or
retaliation, or terroristic threat under Section 22.07(a)(1), (3),
(4), (5), or (6);
(3) the person commits the murder for remuneration or
the promise of remuneration or employs another to commit the murder
for remuneration or the promise of remuneration;


§ 12.31. CAPITAL FELONY. (a) An individual adjudged
guilty of a capital felony in a case in which the state seeks the
death penalty shall be punished by imprisonment in the
institutional division for life without parole or by death.

God bless Texas. Aussie law leaves something to be desired.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-08-25 11:36  

#5  And he's elgible for release in just seven!
Posted by: 11A5S   2006-08-25 09:09  

#4  Ten years? For conspiracy to solicit a rape-murder in the pursuit of the suppression of testimony in another rape case?

Life without parole. It trembles right on the edge of what I'd judge worthy of the death penalty.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2006-08-25 09:06  

#3  Yea right I believe it... Let me get this straight sir! You paid $3000 dollars down and you say you had no intent of paying the rest... why didn't you just keep the $3000.

Blackvenom-2001
Posted by: Blackvenom-2001   2006-08-25 09:01  

#2  and claimed he had never intended to pay the remaining money which would ensure the murder was carried out

I believe it. How about you?
Posted by: gorb   2006-08-25 02:08  

#1  Death is the only suitable punishment.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2006-08-25 01:13  

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