Mohammad Skaf’s creepy sexts: Read the extraordinary messages from one of Australia’s worst gang rapists to a woman he met on a beach – the same place where he once roamed for victims
Notorious gang rapist Mohammed Skaf is accused of sending lurid text messages and emails to a married woman shortly after his release from prison, telling her: “I dream of us having sex.”
Alexandra Mastropetros, 27, told Daily Mail Australia she met Skaf, 40, in February this year, just after moving from Melbourne to Sydney, when a mutual friend invited them to a beach near Rose Bay.
Ms Mastropetros thought he looked familiar but had no idea he was one of Australia’s most notorious gang rapists, who sought victims on the beach and had only recently been released from Long Bay Prison after serving 22 years.
Skaf was just 17 when he and 13 others, led by his older brother Bilal, carried out a month-long rape campaign in Sydney’s south-west. in the weeks leading up to the 2000 Olympic Games.
They held at least six women against their will and repeatedly attacked them in a series of rapes described by the judge as ‘worse than murder’.
Ms Mastropetros claimed she repeatedly asked him to leave her alone, but claimed the barrage of messages continued and she was bombarded with emails entitled ‘my love my life’ and ‘Us’, in which he described their sexual relationship described.
Ultimately, she was so terrified by the ordeal that she changed her name, phone number and email address and moved back to Victoria with her husband.
That was before Skaf went to the police and claimed that she was in fact the one who had stalked or intimidated him.
However, Skaf vehemently denies her claims – he says they had a consensual relationship, and pointed to numerous messages in which Ms Mastropetros said ‘I love you’ to Skaf and called him ‘sweetie’.
Alexandra Mastropetros, 27, is pictured with her husband Ahmed
Mohammed Skaf is pictured 48 hours after being released from prison in 2021
Mohammed Skaf sent Ms Mastropetros a series of messages after they met on the beach in February this year
In February, just over a year after his release, Ms. Mastropetros told Skaf she recognized him from somewhere.
He didn’t say who he was, but explained that he was “away for a long time” and that he was lonely and wanted a friend.
“He seemed perfectly fine the day we met, but then the messages and calls started,” she claimed.
“Within a week he was calling and calling and I started to worry, so I looked up his name and I saw so many articles – I read about him in the news when I was a kid.”
She decided to write back to his messages and ask him to leave her alone, to which he asked, “Is it because of who I am?”
“I said it wasn’t, it was just because he wouldn’t stop messaging me.”
From there, she said, the situation only got worse.
In a series of emails and messages seen by Daily Mail Australia, Skaf professed his love for Ms Mastropetros, despite having only met her once and even though he knew she was married.
One email was signed “Mohammed Skaf” and read: “Please Alexia, please, I need you, I haven’t stopped thinking about you.”
‘I want more than friends. I know you’re married and I’m sorry to bother you.
“All I can think about is your body and what I want to do with you. I dream about us having sex and your body hasn’t left my mind. I need you. I need you to please reach out.”
Mohammed Skaf (left) is seen trying to lift a girl from the sand, while Tayyab Sheik (right) leans over the other girl in October 2000. The girls walked away unharmed.
Mohammed Skaf is 17 years old, after his arrest in Sydney in 2000
In an email entitled ‘Us’, Skaf described a sham relationship between himself and Ms Mastropetros (pictured)
Mrs. Mastropetros blocked him, but he kept bombarding her with messages, and she eventually settled it to meet him with her husband and her best friend and tell him to end contact.
However, she was too afraid to see him and canceled the meeting.
The constant messaging resumed and he told Ms. Mastropetros that he wanted to marry her and had cut off other romantic options to pursue a relationship with her.
Ms Mastropetros said they have never had a relationship because she is married, and described the scene in the email as a “delusion”.
In June, Skaf went to Bankstown police station and filed an assault warrant against Ms Mastropetros and her boyfriend, Hicham Ismail, who tried to ask Skaf to stop contacting her.
By then, Ms Mastropetros said she had become so fearful for her safety that she changed her number, got a new email address, legally changed her name and moved back to Melbourne with her husband.
Ms Mastropetros says Skaf continually emailed, called and texted her even though she told him not to (messages from Skaf, photo)
In one email, Skaf said he had spoken to his psychologist about Ms Mastropetros (pictured)
She did not know she was being charged in NSW with stalking and harassment, nor did she realize she had to appear in Bankstown District Court on September 7.
When she missed her court date, she was convicted in her absence and police issued a warrant for her arrest.
Her vehicle was stopped by police in Victoria and she was arrested, imprisoned and extradited back to Sydney.
Ms Mastropetros said she tried to explain the situation to police and show them his messages, but they did not believe her.
She is now forced to remain in Sydney to meet her bail conditions, even though she is terrified Skaf will find her.
The AVO against Ismail, who was previously jailed for affray, was upheld by Bankstown Local Court in September for a period of two years.
Mrs. Mastropetros will appear in court again on September 21 for sentencing.
Prominent victims advocate Howard Brown said Skaf’s posts should be a “red flag” to police given his past.
Mohammed Skaf (right) was released from Long Bay Prison in October 2021. Bilal Skaf (left) will be eligible for parole in 2033. He will serve a minimum term of 28 years with a maximum of 31 years.