Serial rapist Mustafa Kayirici dies in prison, aged 31

Posted by Mittie Cheatwood on Sunday, April 28, 2024

Mustafa Kayirici – who brutally raped seven women, including a 13-year-old schoolgirl – has died behind bars aged 31.

The serial offender was sentenced to 34 years in prison last August on 30 charges of rape, degradation and child abuse, for the terrifying, five-hour long sexual assault of a schoolgirl across 10 locations in 2016. He had already been sentenced to 38 years for the rape and robbery of seven other women that same year.

Corrective Services NSW confirmed to news.com.au that a 31-year-old man died in the secure prison annex at Prince of Wales Hospital on Tuesday morning.

“He was found unresponsive in his cell and pronounced deceased at 10.25am. Corrective Services NSW and NSW Police are investigating the incident,” a CSNWS spokesman said in a statement.

“All deaths in custody are subject to a coronial inquest.”

Last year, Kayirici was given 12 months to live after being diagnosed with an undisclosed terminal illness, and had been undergoing chemotherapy in prison. Had he survived, he would not have been eligible for release from jail until 2066.

The jury in the schoolgirl rape case was unaware that Kayirici, armed with a knife, raped and robbed seven young women in attacks in hotels and apartments across Sydney and robbed an eighth woman at gunpoint.

As he did with his 13-year-old victim, Kayirici filmed his degrading and violent attacks on the women on his phone for his own sexual gratification or to try to “prove” the rapes were consensual.

Kayirici played video of him violently assaulting another woman to one victim, as he held her at knifepoint, telling her he “loved to see the fear in people when they can’t do anything about it”.

Kayirici made the young women and the schoolgirl repeat degrading phrases about themselves as he violated them.

The rape spree culminated with Kayirici luring the 13-year-old in her uniform to his vehicle as she was on her way to school on June 26, 2016.

Over the next four hours, Kayirici sexually assaulted her and bound and gagged her in bushland.

He also threatened her with his knife, made 11 videos of himself naked with her, and told her “you are not going home tonight”.

Describing allegations against him about the 13-year-old as “completely a lie”, Kayirici told Parramatta Local Court in 2016, “They’re making out I’m an evil person, like I’m a paedophile rapist predator.

“I’m all over the news and it’s wrong.

“The point is I’ve got it all on footage. I know I’m innocent. I did not know that this person is 13.

“She lied about her age. Everything is consensual.”

Kayirici said he took “camera footage” when he slept with women so they couldn’t “cry rape” after the fact.

His spree began on May 7, 2016, when he booked the first of many appointments with a sex worker that ended in violence and tragedy.

He arrived to meet his first victim at the Park Regis Apartments in Sydney’s CBD around 7.30am. When the young woman let Kayirici in, he produced a butcher’s knife and rummaged through her bag and took her cash, sunglasses and passport to “put fear into her”. He then raped her at knifepoint.

That afternoon, Kayirici met another woman online and showed up at a Parramatta block of Meriton apartments, and proceeded to rape her at knifepoint.

One week later, Kayirici arranged to meet an escort in another Parramatta apartment. Once inside the woman’s apartment, he pulled a knife and robbed her of cash and property before leaving the scene. He committed the same offence on another woman, in her Parramatta home, on May 20, 2016.

A week later, Kayirici, posing as a client, ordered a 22-year-old woman to perform sex acts on him after withdrawing a “large butcher-style knife” from a kitchen drawer.

The woman later told police, “I was thinking that if I don’t, I will probably die.”

On May 30, he committed the same offence on another sex worker, producing a knife, before raping and robbing her.

And on June 19, 2016, Kayirici was back at the Park Regis apartments to claim another victim, also aged 22, alongside another male.

This woman’s report to police set detectives on Kayirici’s tail, even as he managed to rape the 13-year-old schoolgirl before finally being arrested after the car crash the next day.

– with Candace Sutton and Megan Palin

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