Further guilty verdict in buck’s gang rape trial

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Further guilty verdict in buck’s gang ***** trial

Another guilty verdict has been delivered against one of three men who gang-****** three women at their rented property during a buck’s weekend.

Maurice Hawell, 30, his brother Marius Hawell, 22, and Andrew David, 30, have faced an almost four-week-long ****** trial in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court.

On Monday, they were hit with nine guilty verdicts regarding the ******* ******** of three women, who were lured into their rented Newcastle Airbnb one weekend in February 2022 ahead of groom Maurice Hawell’s wedding.

The verdicts included multiple counts of aggravated ******* ******** in company relating to all three women and of aggravated ******* touching and the attempted aggravated ******* ******** of one woman.

The jury returned on Tuesday to give a further guilty verdict against Maurice Hawell for attempting to ********* touch one of the victims without her consent.

They have been sent out to continue their deliberations.

Judge Gina O’Rourke told the jury they only needed to reach a majority verdict rather than a unanimous one on the final remaining count of aggravated ******* ******** in company against all three men.

The three men wore prison greens as they were escorted into the dock, from which they blew kisses to three female supporters in the courtroom on Tuesday.

During the trial, jurors heard the men met three teenage women at a nearby pub and separately invited them back to the unit.

After having consensual ****, two 18-year-old victims went to retrieve their phones from a darkened bedroom where they were pushed onto the bed, stripped and “swarmed” by ****** men, crown prosecutor Craig Evans previously said.

Describing exactly who performed which ******* act was impossible because the room was dark, but prosecutors alleged the three men were engaged in a ****** ********* agreement to ***** and ********* touch the women.

On the following night, a 19-year-old said she entered the apartment on the pretext of drinks but was ****** by Maurice Hawell and David, who took turns swapping ******* positions.

Marius Hawell came into the room and watched, Mr Evans told the court.

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