A removalist who gave a “woozy and intoxicated” woman a lift home from a party said two words when she woke up as he started to raping her.
Frightened of unwanted advances of another man, the woman had sought shelter in Tareq Mikhael Setto’s work van after asking for a lift home from a party in Darlinghurst on August 13, 2017.
Judge Sarah Huggett sentenced him to a maximum of 9 years jail on Friday, saying the father-of-two intentionally deprived the woman of her liberty before the “opportunistic” but “premeditated” attack. She lost her dream job and the savings she hoped to buy a house with, and support her mother, after going down a “dark path” of drug and alcohol abuse.“These mere few minutes of pleasure for him took everything away from my whole life.”
Formally a passionate and hardworking nurse, her family resented the person she became, her statement said.“Months went past and I was unable to work, struggling to leave the bed let alone the house,” she said.The court heard on the day of the attack Setto first drove the van to woman’s street, but he and a work colleague refused her attempts to get out.
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