An anomaly in WA law meant Rami Rahman was in the Broome community unsupervised for months before he attacked a mother and daughter while they slept.
A convicted rapist who went on to attack four others was not supervised when he was let out of jail due to an anomaly in West Australian law.Rami Jonathan Rahman was jailed for 19 years in the Broome District Court last week over a string of sex attacks
The court heard Rahman had only been out of jail for nine months when he committed the attacks and he had been in the community unsupervised. However while he was jailed, Rahman submitted a request to deny his own parole consideration; a rare move in which the Prisoners Review Board is not required to consider a prisoner's release.
It followed that any charge regarding conspiracy, attempt or incitement was not listed as a Schedule 4 offence, and therefore were not serious enough to warrant supervision post release. Over two days, Rahman broke into a home and touched a 13-year-old girl as she slept, attempted to assault a 17-year-old who was staying in the same house as him, and finally broke into a home while a mother and her daughter were sleeping in the master bedroom.
"This is a 30-year-old mother who watched her daughter being held captive and [assaulted] in a number of ways," he said.
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