Australian jailed after sex 'reign of terror'
By Wang Xiang |
July 20, 2010, Tuesday
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AN Australian who subjected four Asian students - three Chinese women and a South Korean man - to a sexual "reign of terror" must spend at least 21 years in prison.
Brendan David Dennison pleaded guilty in Sydney to 19 charges, including the murder of 19-year-old Wei Liao who fell to her death trying to escape.
The Supreme Court of New South Wales sentenced Dennison to a maximum 28 years in jail with a non-parole period of 21 years.
The dead woman's parents, from southwest China's Sichuan Province, hit out at the sentence, telling the China News Service yesterday that it was too lenient for Dennison's "monstrous acts."
The 28-year-old had held the students at knifepoint in their apartment in Sydney's Waterloo District in October 2008. During a four-hour ordeal which Supreme Court judge Elizabeth Fullerton called a "reign of terror," Dennison forced the students to have sex with him and with each other while he watched.
They tried to offer him money to leave but Dennison refused. He first forced the man to strip naked and then cut off the women's underwear before he began raping them.
He repeatedly raped all four. Wei and the man, her boyfriend, made a desperate attempt to escape by climbing from the balcony while their attacker was distracted. But they slipped and fell from the third floor. Wei died at the scene while her boyfriend was seriously injured.
"Dennison's sexual assault was not only aggravated as the court suggested, it was sick, pure disgusting," Wei's mother, Wu Caiping, told the China News Service.
Wu said she was worried that Dennison could still do something as horrible when he was discharged from prison.
The couple said they wanted to appeal the sentence but their lawyer, Shen Hanbing, said only the Director of Public Prosecutions could lodge such an appeal.
The court heard that Dennison was a drug addict and on an ice binge when he broke into the victims' apartment. He said he could not remember what he did.
The other victims did not appear in court, the news agency said.
Brendan David Dennison pleaded guilty in Sydney to 19 charges, including the murder of 19-year-old Wei Liao who fell to her death trying to escape.
The Supreme Court of New South Wales sentenced Dennison to a maximum 28 years in jail with a non-parole period of 21 years.
The dead woman's parents, from southwest China's Sichuan Province, hit out at the sentence, telling the China News Service yesterday that it was too lenient for Dennison's "monstrous acts."
The 28-year-old had held the students at knifepoint in their apartment in Sydney's Waterloo District in October 2008. During a four-hour ordeal which Supreme Court judge Elizabeth Fullerton called a "reign of terror," Dennison forced the students to have sex with him and with each other while he watched.
They tried to offer him money to leave but Dennison refused. He first forced the man to strip naked and then cut off the women's underwear before he began raping them.
He repeatedly raped all four. Wei and the man, her boyfriend, made a desperate attempt to escape by climbing from the balcony while their attacker was distracted. But they slipped and fell from the third floor. Wei died at the scene while her boyfriend was seriously injured.
"Dennison's sexual assault was not only aggravated as the court suggested, it was sick, pure disgusting," Wei's mother, Wu Caiping, told the China News Service.
Wu said she was worried that Dennison could still do something as horrible when he was discharged from prison.
The couple said they wanted to appeal the sentence but their lawyer, Shen Hanbing, said only the Director of Public Prosecutions could lodge such an appeal.
The court heard that Dennison was a drug addict and on an ice binge when he broke into the victims' apartment. He said he could not remember what he did.
The other victims did not appear in court, the news agency said.
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