‘Endless suffering’: Shattered gran, 75, raped by evil tradie reveals her ‘tortured’ life since his vile attack – while the sick monster mutters Hindu mantras as he does yoga in his jail cell
A 75-year-old grandmother who was raped in her home by an electrician after he complained he never had sex with his wife says her life is an ongoing nightmare.
The woman has withdrawn from family and friends, struggles to eat, and has lost so much weight she now buys children’s clothes.
She requires a carer to complete basic tasks and has abandoned all outside activities, having previously expected to live independently into her 90s.
Meanwhile, her rapist – 45-year-old Amol Vijay Dhumal – reports being ‘remarkably resilient’ in his prison cell, saying prayers, reciting Hindu mantras and performing yoga.
Dhumal, serving a minimum five years, has appealed his conviction and, according to a psychological report, ‘firmly believes he did not commit a crime because the sex was consensual’.
He claims his main worry is for his wife and children in western Sydney, and his family in India.
The married father-of-two has also expressed ‘underlying fear’ about ‘negative consequences’ if other inmates find out what he did to the woman.
The crime was shocking, but a 1,549-word victim impact statement obtained by Daily Mail reveals the full scale of the catastrophic toll on the elderly woman.
Amol Vijay Dhumal raped a 75-year-old woman after telling her he and his wife had never had sex. The woman says her life is now an ongoing nightmare
In her statement to the court, the woman wrote: ‘Today is December 17, a total of 601 days since April 2024 that I am not living but only existing.
‘I have no life at all since this happened to me. It has affected me psychologically, physically, mentally and spiritually.’
Dhumal and two other electrical contractors went to the woman’s home in Sydney’s north-west to install solar panels on April 22, 2024.
At the end of the working day, he hugged and tried to kiss the woman after asking if she lived alone, saying she reminded him of his mother.
The woman told Dhumal to leave and he did, but two days later he returned alone to fix a power problem.
This time, he told the woman his wife never had sex with him, then tried unsuccessfully to drag her into the bedroom.
‘You’ve got to be kidding,’ she told him.
Dhumal then held the woman down, lifted her legs and raped her in the loungeroom.
Rapist Amol Dhumal (above) is feeling ‘remarkably resilient’ in his prison cell, saying prayers, reciting Hindu mantras and performing yoga
The woman contacted police two weeks later on May 6 and DNA evidence extracted from her underwear positively identified Dhumal.
He was arrested on May 13, a week after detectives first visited his Werrington home.
Dhumal denied a single allegation of having had sexual consent with the woman without her consent but was found guilty by a NSW District Court jury in September.
The woman could not bear to attend Dhumal’s sentencing due to what she described as ‘my endless suffering and traumas’ but her victim impact statement was presented to the court.
‘This is the most torturous tragedy of my life, it has been a continuing nightmare,’ she wrote.
‘I am in prison in my own home and I have been living in recluse and withdrawn from all, including my own family.’
Only the woman’s son knew about the sexual assault – she kept the attack from her grandchildren because ‘I like to protect them especially, they have young minds.’
‘I wanted them to grow up and embrace multiculturalism in their schools, neighbourhood, in their communities and among their friends,’ she wrote.
Dhumal’s victim has withdrawn from her family and friends, has trouble holding down food and has lost so much weight she now buys clothes from the kids’ section of stores. Stock image
‘I keep away from my relatives and friends and all church for the reason that I keep on breaking down.’
The woman suffered heart palpitations as a result of the rape and endured shaking fits which she could only ‘slowly tone down’ by ‘screaming my head out’.
She had lived in her house for almost 50 years and it had long given her ‘security, peace and lasting memories’ but since the rape it had become a place of ‘horror’.
‘I now bolt all windows and doors and feel so alarmed that out there someone knows I live alone and will just come in again and harm me,’ she wrote.
‘All of this has contributed to my continued suffering and contributes to the deterioration of my health.’
The woman said she had no energy, always felt weak, and only picked at her food, ‘since I end up vomiting due to continued stress and trauma’.
‘What a shock to me when I went to the clothes shop,’ she wrote. ‘I have to go to the kids’ section as I have lost a lot of weight and right there I break down.’
Where once the woman had been able to look after herself, she now required a carer to do housekeeping, garden maintenance and grocery shopping.
Judge Craig Everson sentenced Dhumal to eight years in jail with a minimum term of five years. He said claims Dhumal was no risk of reoffending were ‘ludicrous’
‘I never, never, ever thought that I would need a carer till I reached the age of 90+,’ she wrote.
‘I’ve just completely DISAPPEARED since last year.
‘Things I used to enjoy, there is nothing there any more… My beautiful garden that I worked so hard on, there is no beauty there. It’s just blank when I look at it.
‘At times I was thinking, why am I still here? When I try to sleep, I’ve said to myself, I wish I don’t wake up anymore.’
The woman said when her son calls she tells him not to worry about her – ‘I do not like him to be affected, being his mother’.
Her main contact with the outside world had lately been visiting her local police station ‘and when I am there I keep breaking down’.
‘In all my living years, at my age, I am supposed to enjoy my twilight years, and here I am in the police station,’ she wrote.
Having to give evidence against Dhumal had stripped her of ‘my wellbeing, my respectability, my integrity’ and left the woman feeling ‘dehumanised’.
Leading criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro said of Dhumal: ‘If there is no empathy, no insight, no expressions of remorse, what has changed beyond being deprived of his liberty?’
She described Dhumal as a ‘Very Evil Person’ with an ‘Evil Heart’, ‘Evil Mind’ and ‘Evil and Filthy Mouth’.
‘My life will never be the same since that Evil Person has inflicted all this on me, he has no regard whatsoever, as long as he gets his gratification.
‘I am seeking full justice, to the maximum.’
Dhumal claimed the woman had invented the sexual assault because he had not answered a call from her.
He maintained the victim had introduced the topic of sex in conversation and the intercourse was consensual.
A psychological report prepared for Dhumal’s sentencing determined he ‘presented as enjoying good mental health and did not meet criteria for any psychiatric diagnosis’.
‘Mr Dhumal stated that he is respectful of the court’s decisions and whatever decision they ultimately arrive at he will accept,’ the report found.
‘He did add though that he does not believe he actually committed the alleged crime because “the sex was definitely consensual”.’
As for Dhumal’s remorse, the report stated only: ‘Whilst Mr Dhumal maintains that the sexual intercourse was consensual he regrets having sexual intercourse with [the victim] and the effect on his wife and family.’
Dhumal’s wife gave evidence on his behalf at his sentencing hearing at Downing Centre District Court
Dhumal’s wife remained supportive and his primary concern while behind bars was for her and their three-year-old twins.
‘Mr Dhumal stated that lately his experience in prison has been largely positive because “the staff are really good and probably because of this, the inmates are also good”,’ the report found.
‘He did also say he hopes no one finds out about his charges “because sex offenders aren’t popular in prison” although up to this point in time he has not experienced any of the consequences he fears.
‘Mr Dhumal reports being remarkably resilient and is able to quickly dispel “negative thoughts” through yoga, prayer and reciting mantras from his Hindu faith.’
The report further found that Dhumal, who came to Australia in 2006 and had no prior criminal history, was at no risk of reoffending.
Judge Craig Everson said that last proposition was ‘ludicrous’.
‘The fact that he denies the offence and shows no remorse suggests to me that he is at risk of reoffending, at the very least because he’s not able to grasp what properly involves consent,’ he said in sentencing.
Leading criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro agreed with Judge Emerson.
‘If there is no empathy, no insight, no expressions of remorse, what has changed beyond being deprived of his liberty?’ he told the Daily Mail.
Judge Everson jailed Dhumal for eight years with a non-parole period of five years backdated to April last year to take into account time already spent in custody.
Dhumal will first be eligible for parole on April 11, 2030. He will remain in jail while his appeal is considered.
