Sydney lawyer who gang-raped three teenagers during buck’s party had ‘no remorse’, judge says

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Sydney lawyer who gang-raped three teenagers during buck’s party had ‘no remorse’, judge says
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Judge raises questions about Maurice Hawell’s prospects of rehabilitation after he, Marius Hawell, and Andrew David were all found guilty of the sexual assaults in July

Sydney lawyer Maurice Hawell showed no empathy for the three teenagers he was convicted of gang-raping during a buck’s weekend, a judge said.Sydney lawyer Maurice Hawell showed no empathy for the three teenagers he was convicted of gang-raping during a buck’s weekend, a judge said.Maurice Hawell, a Sydney lawyer convicted over the gang rapes of three teenage women during his buck’s weekend, was only remorseful for his own situation and showed no empathy towards his victims, a judge says.

During a sentence hearing at Sydney’s Downing Centre district court on Wednesday, Judge Gina O’Rourke raised questions about Maurice Hawell’s“None of the remorse or empathy or insight is directed with any of them towards the victims,” she said. He said the judge might also be perplexed as to how someone like Maurice Hawell with a “really outstanding character” became involved in the offences.

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