Prostitute deaths end in 8-year sentence
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August 27, 2011, Saturday
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A drug-addicted neurosurgeon was sentenced yesterday to almost eight years in prison after two prostitutes died of overdoses during sex and cocaine binges nine months apart in his exclusive Sydney apartment.
In sentencing, New South Wales District Court Judge Robert Toner told 43-year-old Suresh Surendranath Nair that he had been "driven by self-indulgence."
Nair, who remains a Malaysian citizen despite living in Australia since age 11, was initially charged with the murder of Suellen Domingues-Zaupa, 22, and manslaughter of Victoria McIntyre, 23, because of his failure to call ambulances for the prostitutes as they lay dying.
But prosecutors accepted a plea bargain in which Nair pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Domingues-Zaupa, a Brazilian national, at his apartment in the harborside suburb of Elizabeth Bay in November 2009. He also pleaded guilty to supplying cocaine to McIntyre, who died in the same apartment in February 2009.
Nair also pleaded guilty to supplying cocaine in January 2010, when he broke his bail conditions by being found with the drug in the company of two prostitutes.
Toner said Nair was grossly negligent for not calling an ambulance when Domingues-Zaupa was having convulsions due to her voluntary cocaine use during a sex session.
Nair told a sentencing hearing last month that he knew his drug and sex addictions were out of control when the first prostitute died.
"I made a big mistake and the whole thing snowballed," Nair told the judge then. "There was a part of me that recognized things were out of control ... but there was another part of me that chose to ignore that rational part of my mind."
In sentencing, New South Wales District Court Judge Robert Toner told 43-year-old Suresh Surendranath Nair that he had been "driven by self-indulgence."
Nair, who remains a Malaysian citizen despite living in Australia since age 11, was initially charged with the murder of Suellen Domingues-Zaupa, 22, and manslaughter of Victoria McIntyre, 23, because of his failure to call ambulances for the prostitutes as they lay dying.
But prosecutors accepted a plea bargain in which Nair pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Domingues-Zaupa, a Brazilian national, at his apartment in the harborside suburb of Elizabeth Bay in November 2009. He also pleaded guilty to supplying cocaine to McIntyre, who died in the same apartment in February 2009.
Nair also pleaded guilty to supplying cocaine in January 2010, when he broke his bail conditions by being found with the drug in the company of two prostitutes.
Toner said Nair was grossly negligent for not calling an ambulance when Domingues-Zaupa was having convulsions due to her voluntary cocaine use during a sex session.
Nair told a sentencing hearing last month that he knew his drug and sex addictions were out of control when the first prostitute died.
"I made a big mistake and the whole thing snowballed," Nair told the judge then. "There was a part of me that recognized things were out of control ... but there was another part of me that chose to ignore that rational part of my mind."
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