Sydney too -

- Indian meat cleaver rapist -
invasion of victim's home, followed by a terrifying ordeal in which she was assaulted and raped at knife point.

https://www.noticer.news/sydney-indian-rapist-cleared-mental-health/


An Indian man who violently raped a woman while armed with a meat cleaver and a choke chain has been cleared of criminal responsibility on mental health grounds after convincing psychiatrists that he thought he was inside a video game at the time.

Khateebulla Mirza, 37, sexual assaulted the woman, 26, after breaking into a random apartment in Auburn, western Sydney, in November 2022, placing the chain around her neck, striking her elbow with the cleaver and slapping her in the face.

He carried out the horrendous attack just hours after groping another woman’s breast in Marrickville, and a month after indecently touching a woman’s backside in Zetland, his home suburb.

District Court Judge Ian Bourke found on Tuesday that the acts were proven, but that Mirza was mentally impaired and therefore not criminally responsible. He referred Mirza to the Mental Health Review Tribunal, and ordered that he be detained in a secure forensic hospital or mental health facility until facing the tribunal.