A judge has hit out at the notion a man can relieve his emotional turmoil by sexually assaulting a vulnerable young woman.
, whose own lawyer described his conduct as disgraceful, predatory and grievously unconscionable.Alsharif, a father of five in his 50s, has admitted raping and sexually assaulting a woman who thought she was getting into a rideshare car when leaving a birthday celebration in Melbourne’s inner north in April 2021.He drove the car around the block before raping and sexually assaulting her.
The woman was picked up by police and taken to hospital. Alsharif was identified using DNA and CCTV footage. Defence barrister Luke Barker said Alsharif’s offending was serious and deserved to be punished justly, but highlighted that the crime was situational and not premeditated.Barker said his client was a vulnerable man who had experienced a great deal of psychological distress.“It is not for men, such as your client, to take out their own emotional anguish and difficulties by the sexual assault of a young woman,” the judge said.
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