Harry Barkas’ victims are still waiting for the man dubbed ‘the hot chocolate rapist’, to pay them almost $200,000 compensation, despite him being sentenced for the crime nearly three years ago.
A supreme court judge told the 51-year-old to stop wasting the three victims’ time and pay them the compensation. The victims were drugged after Barkas had given them a hot drink, and he raped them while they were unconscious or semi-conscious.
Barkas was originally charged with over 24 rapes but pleaded guilty to just three rapes committed in 1991, between 2002 and 2003 and between 2004 and 2005. He was sentenced to a minimum of nine year’s jail in 2010.
One of his victims was awarded $100,000 while the other two were awarded $40,000 each in compensation. Barkas, along with his family have applied to the court to seek protection for their shared Bentleigh property and $24,000 in a bank account from becoming the funds used to pay the compensation.
The prosecutor told Barkas in court that he had no grounds on which to exclude his share of the assets from being used.