Three men found guilty of Newcastle buck’s weekend gang rapes

Maurice Hawell, his brother Marius Hawell and Andrew David were convicted of a February 2022 gang rape involving three teenage women

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Three men have been found guilty of luring three women to be gang-raped in an apartment they were renting for a buck’s party weekend.

Maurice Hawell, 30, his brother Marius Hawell, 22, and Andrew David, 30, were hit with the verdicts on Monday after an almost four-week-long trial in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court.

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