Sydney’s gang rapist Mohammed Skaf walks from prison after 21 years

Gang rapist Mohammed Skaf has left prison after serving 21 years behind bars for his role in Sydney’s infamous Skaf gang rape rampage just before the 2000 Olympics.

With older brother Bilal leading the notorious Skaf rape gang, Mohammed and up to 14 other youths raped and degraded six women aged between 16 and 18 years old.

Skaf walked from the historic arch of the jail down a long driveway just before 10am on Wednesday.

Surrounded by corrective services officers, Skaf ditched his green prison garb for a white Boss brand sweatshirt, matching new white sneakers and a white face mask.

No family were present. Instead, three staff members showed him to a waiting white Toyota Corolla, and he was bustled out of Long Bay prison to his home in western Sydney.

The slight teenager who went into prison has become stouter over the two decades spent behind bars.

Skaf was this morning asked if he was sorry for his role in the series of horrific rapes. But he said nothing as he was led from the gates, and simply clutched his release papers before he jumped in the waiting car.

Within minutes, the vehicle sped away towards Sydney’s west with Skaf in the back seat.

The convicted rapist has spent much of his time in Kickconnell prison in the state’s central west, with the final week of his incarceration spent at Sydney’s Long Bay.

During the gang’s four-week reign of terror, the gang humiliated the young women by calling them “Aussie pigs” as they forced them into “doing it Leb style” and then hosed them down afterwards.

The shocking crimes originally attracted a total of 240 years in prison sentences for the nine men convicted, although these were reduced on appeal.

Skaf, 38, was finally released to serve two years in the community on parole after three previous unsuccessful release applications.

He will be subject to strict conditions including wearing an electronic ankle monitor, and a ban on entering the LGAs of Liverpool, Fairfield, Blacktown and Parramatta where the rapes were committed.

He will live at the Greenacre house of his parents, Baria and Mustapha Skaf, and undergo counselling as directed.

The NSW State Parole Authority (SPA) found it had no other option but to release him.

Mohammed Skaf was sentenced to 22 years, 11 months and 30 days with a non-parole period of 16 years, 11 months and 30 days, which expires in January 2024.

His brother Bilal, whose original 55 year sentence was reduced to 31 years, will not be eligible for parole until 2033.