The lawyer for two of the women involved in the Sydney Swans sexual assault scandal has labelled what allegedly happened to his clients in a Melbourne CBD hotel room the most “disgusting and degrading” thing he has heard in his nearly three decades on the job.
Carbone Lawyers personal injury head John Karantzis on Friday claimed there were a lot more than five men in the Pullman East Melbourne hotel room and the mix included “leaders” of the Swans club.
“With what has been alleged, these women were subject to the most disgusting actions and behaviour I have ever heard about in my 28 years as a lawyer,” Mr Karantzis told 3AW’s Tom Elliott.
“These women already have a difficult job and what they were subjected to is alleged, demeaning, abhorrent, and simply not moral or acceptable.”
Asked about the number of men in the room — and their identities — Mr Karantzis said the whole truth was yet to come out.
“It’s more than five (men in the room), that’s for sure,” he said.
“More than five men and it’s alleged that there were even a few leaders in that room.
When Mr Elliot asked if he meant coaches Mr Karantzis said: “I can’t say in concern to that, that is for the Sydney Swans to say”.
Mr Karantzis’ comments came after the woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted at the hotel after being hired by Sydney Swans players to perform lap dances broke her silence in an exclusive interview with the Herald Sun.
“All I care about is justice,” she said.
More to come…