EXCLUSIVE Cops reveal fresh charges over 17-year-old girl's alleged western Sydney gang rape ordeal at Wheat Park, Sadleir - as Adam Abdul-Hamid launches Supreme Court bid
More than a week after it was first revealed four teenagers had been charged with the gang rape of a 17-year-old, a clearer picture is emerging of what was allegedly done to the girl.
News that four teens, then aged 14, 16, 17 and 18, had been accused of repeatedly violating the girl in a six-hour rampage across south-western Sydney last year horrified Australians.
But the number of charges the alleged 'Wheat Park gang rapists' are facing is higher than originally disclosed and the details of their alleged crimes are even worse than first understood.
Wheat Park at Sadleir is about 5km from where police say the girl's nightmare began at Liverpool's Westfield shopping centre, and where many of the alleged sexual assaults occurred.
It is also where she was allegedly abandoned when the attacks were finally over.
Adam Abdul-Hamid is the only one of the accused rapists who can be named because the three others were juveniles at the time the alleged outrage occurred.
Daily Mail Australia can reveal Abdul-Hamid has lodged an application seeking bail in the NSW Supreme Court, seeking to overturn a magistrate's decision to keep him locked up.
All four accused gang rapists have had birthdays since the girl reported being attacked in December and are now aged 15, 17, 18 and 19.
Daily Mail Australia will use their ages at the time of the alleged rapes and call them Teen 14, Teen 16 and Teen 17.
When police issued a press release on June 17 they referred to the four teenagers facing a total of 48 charges but that total number is now 69.
Abdul-Hamid is charged with the fewest offences: five counts of aggravated sexual assault in company and maintains his innocence. Teen 17 is charged with nine counts of the same offence.
Teen 16 is charged with 34 offences including 18 counts of aggravated sexual assault in company and two counts of aggravated sexual assault in company causing actual bodily harm.
He is further charged with nine counts of sexual intercourse without consent, four counts of sexually touching a person without consent and one aggravated sexual touching offence.
Teen 14 - the youngest alleged rapist - is charged with 21 offences including 18 counts of aggravated sexual assault in company, and one of aggravated sexual assault in company causing actual bodily harm.
He is further charged with one count each of aggravated sexual touching of a person without consent and sexual touching.
Abdul-Hamid and Teen 17 both faced court on Tuesday when submissions made during their unsuccessful bail applications exposed more information about their alleged roles.
Police have previously said Teen 16 approached the 17-year-old, who was not known to him, at Westfield Liverpool about 5.30pm on December 15.
Teen 16 allegedly followed the girl to her car and she reluctantly let him aside before he began sexually assaulting her.
A short time later, Teen 16 allegedly asked to be driven to Wheat Park and the girl agreed on the understanding he would get out of the car when they arrived.
At Wheat Park, two of the other teens allegedly got into the car and sexually assaulted the girl. The fourth teen arrived in another vehicle and the sexual assaults allegedly continued as the girl was driven around.
Police allege the teens eventually left the girl in her car and about 11.30pm she contacted a friend who took her to Liverpool police station.
It is alleged snippets of video were recorded while the girl was being driven through the suburbs of Sadleir and Miller while she was assaulted.
Teen 16 was arrested five days later, about 7.20am on December 20, at a home in Condell Park. About 15 minutes later, Teen 14 was arrested at a home in Miller.
Six months later, about 6am on June 17, police simultaneously executed search warrants in south-west Sydney, arresting Teen 17 in Sadleir and Abdul-Hamid in Heckenberg.
When Abdul-Hamid appeared at Campbelltown Local Court on Tuesday, DPP solicitor Abby van der Velde said he had been the only adult present during a 'prolonged and sustained sexual assault'.
She told the court the barber shop employee had not tried to intervene and had taken the girl's phone to send himself a text message.
Barrister Troy Edwards SC said the case against Abdul-Hamid was 'weak' and there was no evidence his client had agreed to participate in the alleged crimes.
According to a police statement of facts tendered in court, Abdul-Hamid had been asked, 'Do you want to have a turn?' and replied, 'No, I'm all right.'
Two of the charges Abdul-Hamid is facing involve the alleged use of a hairbrush.
Mr Edwards told magistrate Peter Thompson the onus was on prosecutors to prove Abdul-Hamid was part of a joint criminal enterprise.
When Teen 17 appeared in Parramatta Children's Court later in the day he was also represented by Mr Edwards, with Ms van der Velde again acting as prosecutor.
Ms van der Velde said Teen 17 had been with Teen 16 when the girl was first approached at Westfield Liverpool and had later engaged in 'quite serious assaults'.
Asked by magistrate Rosheehan O'Meagher about the strength of the Crown case against Teen 17, Mr Edwards said: 'It's not submitted it's a weak prosecution case.'
Mr Edwards said the strength of the prosecution case depended in part on whether the person seen with Teen 16 at Liverpool Westfield was the same person who later assaulted the girl.
Ms O'Meagher said the case against Teen 17 appeared 'strong' and if the rape allegations were proven he had been 'well and truly involved, in my view, including in some of the more serious offending'.
Abdul-Hamid and Teen 17, both of whom have clean criminal records, were refused bail.
Detective Superintendent Doherty told 2GB's Ben Fordham last week the age of the teens accused of the pack rape 'beggars belief'.
Abdul-Hamid will return to court on August 13. Teen 16, Teen 14 and Teen 17 will face court on August 11.
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