He unsuccessfully attempted in court to provide an alibi for his sons, and was facing perjury charges at the time of his death in November 2006.
[5][3] News media were banned from reporting on the trials until July 2005 to prevent tainting the jury pool.
Prosecutor Ken McKay suggested MSK's outburst appeared "calculated" to have the trial aborted.
Their younger brother, MMK, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, to be served concurrently and in juvenile detention, for having sex with an underage girl on the night of one of the rapes, as well as for an indecent assault in November 2001.
[16] The crimes were, in chronological order:[7] These are the first girls to come forward, sparking the police investigation against the rapists.
[4] On 9 February 2007 it was reported that the two eldest brothers had been assaulted in Goulburn Correctional Centre by a gang of eight other inmates.
[21] MMK was paroled in June 2018, prompting another campaign for the brothers to be stripped of citizenship and deported.