Melbourne, August 3(ANI): Two Nepalese students who were subjected to 'cruel' and 'disgraceful' assaults by the three Melbourne youth appeared to have been denied justice after their attackers were asked to do community service rather than serve a jail term.
The Court acquitted the three Melbourne youth of more serious charges, including rape.
Judge Wilmoth said the youth were suitable for a community-based order, adding "and that is the way for you and the other prisoners to contribute to the community which you have let down by your disgraceful behaviour".
The unnamed man was ordered to perform 250 hours of unpaid community work within a year, while Mumber and Yahia were sentenced to perform 100 hours of community work within six months.
A County Court had earlier found Eric Mumbler, 21, Ahmed Yehia, 20, and a 20-year-old man guilty of carrying out assault offences at the factory where the male students lived and worked.
Judge Wendy Wilmoth also found that three men had jumped onto the two students while they were sleeping and rubbed hot chillies on their faces forcing them to chew them on a June 2009 night.
Mumbler and Yehia also filmed the two students after tying them, the Age reports.
Yehia was also found guilty of tying up a student in plastic and with a rope, curtains and belts. The student was left on the floor for about five minutes before his shirt was set alight with a lighter.
The defendants claimed the incidents were mere pranks in which the students had participated willingly, the Herald Sun reports.
The defence said that the students owed money from a rental agreement to stay at the factory, and the father of one of the accused, who owned the business, did not pay them wages because of a dispute over the rent. (ANI)
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