Asylum seeker who 'barked like a dog' as he raped a backpacker for six hours after luring her with a fake job on Gumtree has his sentence increased
- An Afghan asylum seeker sentenced to eleven years for raping a backpacker
- Alimadad Mokhtari found guilty of four counts of rape and one of sexual assault
- Prosecutors argued sentence was inadequate and it was extended to 13 years
- He lured the woman to a Melbourne hotel with a fake job advert on Gumtree
- Mokhtari then repeatedly raped the woman over a six hour period while high
A former UN forces commander who 'barked like a dog' as he raped a backpacker he lured to Melbourne with a fake job ad on Gumtree has had his sentence increased.
Alimadad Mokhtari was found guilty of four counts of rape and one each of sexual assault and false imprisonment. He was jailed for 11 years in 2019.
But prosecutors argued the sentence was manifestly inadequate and Court of Appeal justices agreed.
'The individual sentences on the rape charges were well below what was required, given the gravity of the offending and the profound, long-term harm caused to the victim,' Justices Chris Maxwell, David Beach and Mark Weinberg wrote in their decision.
A County Court jury found Alimadad Mokhtari guilty in December of four counts of rape and one each of sexual assault and false imprisonment
But prosecutors argued the first sentence was manifestly inadequate and Court of Appeal justices agreed, extending it to 13 years
He was re-sentenced to 13 years and will be eligible for parole after 10 years.
The father-of-six convinced his victim to fly from Queensland following a fake job ad he put on Gumtree in 2016.
But the one-time Afghan soldier, who worked for the coalition forces, had no intention of employing the traveller from Lithuania.
He took the young woman to a Keysborough motel and tried to ply her with alcohol and methamphetamines, but she rejected his sexual advances.
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As she attempted to leave Mokhtari grabbed the woman before he repeatedly raped her over six hours, threatening to beat her if she screamed.
The County Court of Victoria heard Alimadad barked like a dog and lashed out at invisible people in between sexual assaults and rapes.
He also made 'car noises', Judge Scott Johns told the County Court in February.
'You knew she was your prisoner, you threatened her, she pleaded with you not to rape her.'
At one point the woman begged for Mokhtari to kill her, Judge Johns said.
'In the bathroom she stated, 'You are raping me, if you are going to kill me, kill me now because I cannot stand this,' he said.
'At no point did you respond to her pleas,' the judge added.
The victim was able to escape after a violent struggle in which she gouged Mokhtari's eyes while he tried to choke her.
'The offender cruelly exploited an innocent and vulnerable victim and, against her protests, raped her repeatedly,' Justices Chris Maxwell, David Beach and Mark Weinberg found.
Mokhtari Alimadad is in jail and faces deportation after being found guilty of raping a student he lured through a job ad.
'The offending involved a significant level of planning and deception,' they said of the attack.
His victim told the court she had been left deeply traumatised by her ordeal and would never be the same.
'No-one can understand how disgusting and how rotten everything looks after rape. It's indescribable,' she wrote to the court.
The woman said she now suffered from panic attacks and lived in constant fear of men.
'My personal life has been destroyed,' she wrote. 'Life is a shadow.'
Afghan-born Mokhtari had no prior offences and had helped UN forces as a commander during the war in the country.
