Read the Snapchat messages that were exchanged before a young woman was allegedly gang raped by three men in her own home: ‘That’s what they are into’

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A woman says she was raped at home by three friends of a man she met on Tinder. Earlier that night, she had talked about having group sex with them.

Snapchat conversations between the woman and Adam Kabbout, the man she originally matched with on Tinder, have been submitted in the New South Wales District Court in connection with the rape of four men.

Omar El-Sayed, 25, Rami Katlan, 26, and Mohammed Ali, 21, have pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual intercourse without consent and two counts of aggravated sexual assault in company.

Kabbout has pleaded not guilty to six charges of aggravated sexual assault in connection with what happened in the early morning of April 16, 2022 at the woman’s Belmore apartment in Sydney’s south-west.

The 26-year-old is not accused of having sex with the woman, but prosecutors allege he is criminally liable for encouraging the other three men to rape her.

El-Sayed, Katlin and Ali, who had never met the woman before going to her apartment, claim that the sex they had with her was consensual.

That evening, Kabbout, El-Sayed, Katlan and another man had watched Souths win over the Bulldogs in a Good Friday NRL match at Olympic Park. Ali joined them later.

In the hours leading up to the alleged rapes, Kabbout and the woman sent each other messages via Snapchat. According to the Public Prosecution Service (OM), it was suggested that she have group sex with his friends.

“That’s what they’re working on,” Kabbout wrote.

When the woman replied, “Really?!!?!,” he replied, “Yes.”

Woman: ‘Eep. Maybe not honestly [to be honest].

Kabbout: ‘They are only 3 boys.’

Woman: ‘I don’t know. [I don’t know] ‘Their regret HAHA.’

Kabbout, who was 24 at the time, told the 23-year-old woman: “They look like me, lol.”

She said, ‘Hahahaha eh tempting but maybe not hm.’

After meeting Kabbout at her home, the woman asked him: ‘Do you have condoms??!!’

Kabbout said no, whereupon the woman asked him: ‘What size are you, lol.’

He replied, “Big,” and she said, “I’ll check it at home, but I think it’s normal.”

In another conversation, the woman asked Kabbout, “Do you smoke?” and then added, “Okay, fine. [because] I don’t f*** sober’ when he said he did that.

The now 25-year-old woman told the jury of nine men and five women on Wednesday that when Kabbout arrived at her home, they both went straight to her bedroom.

“He told me to come over,” she said. “And then we were kissing. And then I said I was going to take a shower.”

After 10 or 15 minutes of showering, the woman said she found Kabbout and four other men outside her bedroom. The fifth man was with the group on the soccer field and is not accused of any wrongdoing.

“I went back to my room and closed the door,” she said. “Adam came in and I said, ‘Who are they? What are they doing here?’ and ‘I don’t want them here.'”

I think he rejected me and my questions. [Kabbout] just said, “It’s okay, don’t worry about it.”

The woman said that Kabbout left her bedroom and that she heard the men outside having a conversation in a language she did not understand.

Kabbout then returned to the bedroom with one of the group members, she told the jury.

“He was like, ‘Suck him off,’” she said.

“I went closer to them and said I didn’t want to do it, I didn’t want to do anything, but I was scared and he said just do it, so I did.”

The woman stated that after Kabbout left the room, she had sex with the man.

“I remember just saying I didn’t want to do this, I didn’t want to do this,” she said.

“When he was done, he went to the bathroom and Adam came in.”

The woman said that when she told Kabbout she wanted the men to leave, he replied, “Not yet.”

She told the jury that a second man entered the room and raped her in the same manner as the first, and that he was then followed by a third.

The woman said she was in tears as she was allegedly raped by the second and third men and continued to protest what was being done to her.

During the alleged attacks, Kabbout walked in and out of the bedroom, the woman said.

“He was just watching what we were doing,” she told the jury. “He just came and watched.”

The woman said that Kabbout came back in after the third man left her room.

“I said, ‘I don’t want to do it anymore, can you please leave?'” she told the jury. “He said, ‘Okay, your loss,’ and then they left.”

Kabbout’s lawyer April Francis told the jury on Tuesday that the woman had “clearly misled” police about her communications with Kabbout and the nature of their relationship.

Mrs Francis said there was a dispute over the fact that the woman had not consented to Kabbout inviting the other men to the apartment.

“She gave the suspect the impression that she was interested in these types of sexual acts,” Francis said.

“That explains why the subject came up… before the suspect arrived at her home.”

Ms Francis also said that before and after the alleged rapes the woman searched the internet for “very explicit” material showing multiple men having sex with one woman.

James Trevalion, representing El-Sayed, said on Wednesday that there was no dispute over his client having sex with the woman, but he continued to maintain that it was consensual.

Mr Trevalion told the jury at the time of the alleged offences that El-Sayed was about to get married and that they should not make a moral judgement about his having cheated on his fiancée.

Angela Cook SC, for Katlan, said her client had consensual oral sex with the alleged victim on one occasion.

Ms Cook said the woman had committed “dishonesty and deceit” and told a friend after the alleged rapes: “Only two of them actually fucked me.”

Ali’s lawyer Julia Hickleton told the jury that her client had consensual sex with the complainant and that “this is not a one-sided story”.

You may find it a bit confronting that [the alleged victim] “He voluntarily participated in consecutive sexual acts with three men,” she said.

“This is not a court of morality. It is a court of facts.”

The trial before Judge Leonie Flannery continues on Monday.