A SYDNEY man has been jailed for up to 11 years for repeatedly raping an 18-year-old woman as she slept at an inner-city railway station and filming it on his phone.
Avineshwar Nand carried on the predatory attack despite several train passengers walking past.
He bowed his head slightly and covered his face as the sentence was read out at the NSW District Court on Friday.
The 40-year-old from Quakers Hill spotted the young woman as he got off a train at Newtown railway station during the early hours of December 16, 2010.
He was drunk and shirtless, and she was lying prone on a bench with nobody else on the platform.
The woman, who has not been named for legal reasons, had drunk alcohol the night before and had not slept for several days because of a bout of insomnia.
“She could not have been more vulnerable. She certainly could not have been more defenceless,” Judge Stephen Norrish told the court.
He said it was among the worst of sexual offences.
Nand, originally from Fiji, took advantage of the woman’s deep slumber and raped her several times, filming the entire ordeal on his iPhone.
He yelled at the woman at one stage and carried on the attack despite several train passengers walking past, the District Court heard.
“The prisoner acted brazenly and in a cavalier fashion. He was prepared to have sexual intercourse in full view of other people,” Judge Norrish said.
“He then heaped indignity and humiliation on her by filming the incident.”
It was revealed in court that Nand was on parole during the time of the attack and had previously broken into homes in 2004 and 2006 and indecently assaulted two women inside.
Nand also had convictions for assault, drugs offences and aggravated break and enter.
He only admitted the 2010 attack in January this year, just days before a trial was due to get underway. He pleaded guilty to sexual assault and rape, sparing the victim the ordeal of giving evidence in court.
He was also convicted of possessing a small amount of cannabis.
Nand will serve a minimum of seven and a half years in jail.
His mother and sister were in the court to hear the sentence.
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