Prosecutors push for law graduate to be put behind bars in appeal

A University of Western Australia regulation graduate who was spared jail after admitting to raping a fellow scholar at Rottnest Island may very well be thrown behind bars after the state’s highest courtroom heard he was wrongly proven mercy.

Luigi Rayapen was handed a two-year suspended sentence in December.

Today, prosecutors launched an attraction, arguing the 26-year-old’s regret wasn’t deeply real.

Rayapen ignored his then-21-year-old sufferer’s repeated pleas to cease, responding “why?”

The Crown argues Rayapen’s actions the day after the assault tried to “minimise” his wrongdoing and that after the assault, at an end-of-semester occasion, Rayapen messaged a good friend saying “we are blokes, we have urges, I’ll make it up to her”.

Prosecutors additionally say the intercourse attacker was given an excessive amount of credit score for his responsible plea, which got here two years after the assault and simply hours earlier than his trial was as a result of start.