Kevin Bou-Antoun: Sydney rapist offered to pay hitman $23,000 to murder 16-year-old victim
Notorious rapist who brutally assaulted a 16-year-old girl and then tried to have a hitman kill her for $23,000 is released from prison
- Sydney rapist hired hit man to kill his teenage victim
- Kevin Bou-Antoun raped a schoolgirl, 16, in 2003
- His plan to kill the victim was foiled by a cellmate
- WARNING: Graphic content
A Sydney rapist who attempted to have his teenage victim killed by a hitman will be held in tight custody upon release from prison after the state successfully applied for him to be subject to a warrant of scrutiny.
Kevin Bou-Antoun was paroled in June 2021 after serving 18 years in prison for the repeated rape of a 16-year-old and attempting to evade justice by having her killed by a hit man.
He was arrested in 2003 after he and another man repeatedly raped a 16-year-old girl in North Bondi.
While in prison, he attempted to hire a hitman, but his cellmate alerted the police to his plot and he was subsequently caught with a police sting.
Pictured is the lane where Kevin Bou-Antoun and another man believed to have raped a 16-year-old girl in North Bondi, Sydney’s eastern suburbs, in 2003
After taking her mobile phone, Bou-Antoun told her, “If she says anything to the police, we’ll kill her because you can get fewer years for her murder than for rape,” and threatened to dump her body in a river.
Bou-Antoun beat the girl before he and the other man repeatedly sexually assaulted the girl, despite her protests to stop.
The victim reported the incident to the police and Bou-Antoun and his accomplice were identified and arrested using his car’s registration certificate and mobile phone records.
They were also caught on a police tap discussing the incident.
While in pre-trial detention, Bou-Antoun gave the girl’s details to his cellmate, which he intended to pass on to an assassin.
However, his cellmate gave the information to the police.
A listening device planted in his cell caught him planning to pay $23,000, including a $3,000 down payment, to have the girl killed.
“I just want to kill that bastard, I want to kill her,” he told his cellmate.
He was caught on the same wiretapping device talking to an undercover officer about the plot and that he wanted him to “shove her in the stomach” and “I want her to feel a lot of pain.”
“Tell her it’s from, it’s from Michael,” he said in reference to the false name he had told the girl.
He pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and incitement to murder before being sentenced to 19 years in prison, with a non-parole period of 14 years.
Bou-Antoun was held at Silverwater Correctional Complex in western Sydney (pictured) when he attempted to hire a hit man to murder his teenage victim
The state asked the NSW High Court for injunctions that would allow them to keep a close eye on him for fear he might offend again.
During a year-long legal process, the state asked him to be subject to a three-year extended supervision under the High Risk Offenders Act.
Lawyers acting on Bou-Antoun’s behalf argued that he should be subject to scrutiny orders for only two years.
But in orders issued Friday by Judge Peter Garling, the Supreme Court granted the state a three-year oversight order, expiring in July 2025.
The conditions include that he wears an electronic tracking device until June this year and is not in possession of a prohibited weapon.
Justice Garling also declined to issue further orders proposed by the state, including that Bou-Antoun provide information about his financial affairs and that he not associate with anyone who has consumed alcohol.