Kevin Bou-Antoun: Sydney rapist offered to pay hitman $23,000 to murder 16-year-old victim

A Sydney rapist who attempted to have his teen victim killed by a hitman will be kept on a tight leash following his release from prison after the state successfully applied to have him subject to a control order.

Kevin Bou-Antoun was released on parole in June 2021 after spending 18 years in jail for the repeated rape of a 16-year-old and an attempt to evade justice by having her murdered by a contract killer.

He was arrested in 2003 after he and another man repeatedly raped a 16-year-old girl at North Bondi. 

While in jail, he attempted to hire a hitman but his cellmate alerted police to his plot and he was subsequently caught in a police sting.

After taking her mobile phone, Bou-Antoun told her: ‘If she says anything to the police we’ll kill her because you can get less years for killing her than for rape’ and threatened to dump her body in a river.

Bou-Antoun slapped the girl before he and the other man repeatedly sexually assaulted the girl, despite her protests to stop.

The victim reported the attack to police and Bou-Antoun and his accomplice were identified and arrested using his car’s registration and mobile phone records.

They were also caught on a police tap discussing the incident.

While in jail on remand, Bou-Antoun gave the girl’s details to his cellmate, which he wanted to be passed onto a hitman.

However his cellmate instead gave the information to police.

A listening device that was planted in his cell caught him planning to pay $23,000, including a $3000 down payment, to have the girl killed.

‘I just want to kill that b****, I want to kill her,’ he said to his cellmate.

He was caught on the same listening device talking to an undercover cop about the plot and that he wanted him to ‘pop her in the stomach’ and ‘I want her to feel lots of pain’.

‘Tell her it’s from, it’s from Michael,’ he said in reference to the fake name he told the girl.

He pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault and solicit to murder before being sentenced to 19 years in jail, with a non-parole period of 14 years.

Bou-Antoun was being held at Silverwater Correctional Complex in Sydney’s west (pictured) when he attempted to hire a hitman to murder his teen victim

The state applied to the NSW Supreme Court for orders which would allow them to keep a close tabs on him amid fears he could offend again.

During a year-long legal process, the state applied for him to be subject to a three-year extended supervision order under the High Risk Offenders Act.

Lawyers acted for Bou-Antoun argued he should only be subject to control orders for two years. 

But in orders handed down by Justice Peter Garling on Friday, the Supreme Court granted the state a three-year supervision order, due to expire in July 2025.

The conditions include that he wear an electronic monitoring device until June this year and he not possess a prohibited weapon.

Justice Garling also declined to make 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.