Like father like son

Good riddance to the father and son team Chaouki and Khater Bou-Antoun.

Khater, the son, was jailed earlier this year for 14 years. Chaouki, the father, this week, also got 14 years, with a minimum to be served of 10 years. Their crimes, first Khater was a gang rapist, who sexually assaulted a 16 year old girl at North Bondi in 2003, second Chaouki tried to organise a hitman to kill the girl so she could not testify at his son’s trial. Unfortunately for him and his son, the hitman they tried to hire was an undercover policeman.

Khater told the hitman he wanted the girl raped before she was killed, then:

“Then I want you to pop (shoot) her in the stomach, then pop her in the eye and the forehead,”

Charming! His father’s crime was to pay the hitman a $3,000 deposit for the murder. Despite denying that he intended to go through with the plan to kill the girl, he pleaded guilty to soliciting a murder. The judge in sentencing him did not believe he showed any remorse or sympathy towards the victim or any reservations about the plan until he was charged over it, and that the “cold-blooded” murder plot of the “innocent sexual assault victim” was motivated by the desire to stop her testifying. Once charged of course, Chaouki cried lots of crocodile tears, claiming he feared his son would be killed in jail, that his son pushed him into going along with the plan.

Lovely men aren’t they? Maybe if Chaouki had raised his son with values that said it was not acceptable to rape women, and then it was not acceptable to have someone killed to protect yourself from the consequences of your actions, he wouldn’t be in the shit he got himself into. Where is it that the lowlifes develop these sort of reprehensible values? I really fail to understand how these scum come to think their behaviour is somehow acceptable.