A Sydney man has been jailed for at least 33 years for the sexual assault and brutal murder of a 16-year-old boy in a vacant house.
Aymen Terkmani, 24, was found guilty in August of sexually assaulting and murdering Mahmoud Hrouk in May 2015 at an unoccupied Fairfield East home.
NSW Supreme Court Justice Lucy McCallum on Friday sentenced Terkmani to a maximum of 45 years in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years.
Maha Dunia (right) watched as her son, Mahmoud Hrouk’s rapist and killer, Aymen Terkmani, was sentenced to 45 years behind bars on Friday
Mahmoud had reportedly been affected by ecstasy when he was beaten with a toaster and rolling pin, before he was then strangled and sexually assaulted.
His numerous injuries included a skull fracture, brain damage, fractured ribs, fractured eye socket, collapsed lung and internal injuries.
The teenager’s half-naked body was reportedly discovered the following morning in a pool of blood.
Mahmoud’s family had frantically searched the neighbourhood for him following his disappearance, with his mother Maha Dunia last speaking to him at 9.42pm.
Mahmoud’s family and friends attended the sentencing at the New South Wales Supreme Court on Friday
Mahmoud (pictured) was brutally bashed and sexually assaulted in an unoccupied Fairfield East home in May 2015. His body discovered the following morning
Aymen Terkmani, 24, (pictured) faces a maximum of 45 years behind bars for the sexual assault and murder of Mahmoud Hrouk
The now 24-year-old Terkmani claimed he parted from the teenager at 7.30pm after they ate at McDonald’s
The teenager had whispered ‘Mum, I’m with Aymen,’ before their call was cut off.
Ms Dunia testified she was in bed when Mahmoud left for his labouring job about 5.30am and asked her: ‘Mum do you need anything before I leave?’
She replied no and said ‘God bless you’ as he left the house and later phoned him around 9pm to tell him to come home.
He replied he was with a friend and would come home on his pushbike, but in a second call, she told him: ‘Don’t worry about the bike I’m coming to pick you up.’
The family began searching the neighbourhood and reported Mahmoud missing to police.
Terkmani showed no reaction to the verdict and is due to be sentenced in October
During the search, Ms Dunia allegedly saw her son’s pushbike outside Terkmani’s house but by the next morning it was in a nearby street.
Mahmoud’s father, Azzam Hrouk, told the jury that during the search he kept looking for someone on the ground next to a bicycle.
‘I thought he might have fallen, had an accident,’ he said.
After he was told the bike was seen outside Terkmani’s house, Mr Hrouk went there around 4am and spoke to Terkmani who said ‘I don’t know any Mahmoud’.
Terkmani later claimed he parted from the teenager at 7.30pm after they ate at McDonald’s.
Footage later revealed Terkmani (pictured) visited the Fairfield Police Station just hours before committing the gruesome offence
His father testified his son was at home at the time of the murder, with Terkmani showing no reaction to the verdict as it was handed down.
Footage showed Aymen Terkmani visiting Fairfield Police Station on May 16, 2015, just hours before he sexually assaulted and killed Mahmoud.
The 24-year-old had attended the station around 4pm for bail conditions related to a prior drugs charge.
The video, from 9News, shows the now 24-year-old dressed in a white t-shirt and sunglasses as he attended the station around 4pm