The new bride of a buck’s party gang rapist – who stood by her man as he was convicted of his heinous crime – has been forced to raise their new baby without him away from their $2.5m mansion.
Healthcare worker, Loubna Yousif, 29, married her first cousin, lawyer, Maurice Hawell, 23, in April 2022 during a lavish wedding attended by friends and family.
At the time the young bride had no idea that, just weeks earlier, he had been involved in the gang rape of three teenage girls in, Newcastle, NSW.
The dark secret was revealed when her new husband was arrested just weeks after the ceremony – shortly followed by his best man, younger brother Marius and groomsman Andrew David.
Ms Yousif, who is still wearing her wedding ring, is now sharing a cramped granny annex with her parents and multiple other family members in western Sydney.
It’s a far cry from what was promised by the start of married life – including her husband’s lawyer salary and their wedding packed with glitzy details such as designer clothes and luxury cars.
The victims – two aged 18, one 19 – told the court they were raped in a dark bedroom by men including Maurice Hawell, Marius Hawell and Andrew David after going back to an Airbnb hired for Maurice’s bucks party in February 2022.
A few weeks later Marius and David stood alongside Hawell as he tied the knot with Loubna, later posing for photos with the happy couple.
Loubna Yousif, 29, has been left to bring up their new baby as a solo mum after her husband Maurice Hawell got a lengthy jail term for raping three girls on his buck’s night
Ms Yousif had no idea her husband would be arrested just weeks after their fairytale wedding (above) for his part in the gang rape of three teenage girls
Above is Hawell’s wedding party in April 2022, just 36 days after the rapes. Attendees included his fellow offending gang rapists, brother Marius (circled, centre) and Andrew David (circled, back)
Loubna wore a beautiful hand-beaded, embroidered ‘princess’ gown by Steven Khalil at the ceremony held at their former 5-bedroom home in south-west Sydney which featured a convoy of luxury cars including a $500,000 McLaren 720S convertible.
Hawell was arrested and charged the following month, while Marius and David were arrested in June 2022.
After claiming the intercourse was consensual Hawell spent thousands on his legal defence forcing the newlyweds sell their dream home in October 2022.
Daily Mail Australia can reveal the pair welcomed a baby earlier this year before Hawall was jailed in November to 14 years in prison with a non-parole period of eight years and six months.
David was sentenced to 13 years in prison with a non-parole period of seven years and nine months and Marius was sentenced to nine years in prison with a non-parole period of five years and five months.
Loubna wrote a letter to the courts explaining she was ‘heartbroken’ by her husband’s ‘infidelity’ but said she simply did not believe that he is capable of the ‘monstrous acts.’
She pleaded with the court not to separate her husband from his family and to consider its impact on their lives.
Ms Yousif was seen clutching a designer handbag – and wearing her wedding ring – recently
Ms Yousif wrote a letter to the judge saying she was heartbroken by his infidelity but simply could not believe he was capable of what he was convicted of. Together, above
‘The discovery of Maurice’s infidelity was deeply painful for me and went against the values that are central to our relationship,’ she wrote.
She added: ‘Despite the unfaithfulness, I chose to forgive Maurice for this mistake, recognising that it was a breach of our relationship but not a reflection of his entire character.’
‘And although I was heartbroken to discover Maurice’s infidelity, I never, not for a single moment, believed he could be capable of the monstrous acts described in those papers,’ she wrote in her letter to court.
Ms Yousif is still driving a high-end Lexus and sporting a Louis Vuitton handbag, but looked glum as she stepped out with family pushing her pram around the local shopping mall last week.
When Daily Mail Australia asked Ms Yousif if she still stood by her husband despite the lengthy prison sentence, she declined to comment.
Handing down their sentences earlier this year, NSW District Court Judge Gina O’Rourke described the Hawell brothers and David as ‘highly educated, intelligent, successful, professional young men who come from loving Christian families, who treat their own sisters, mothers and female partners with respect and love.’
But she added: ‘And yet on this weekend, they were capable in a pack mentality of treating three young women in this cold, callous, degrading and criminal way.’
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