A Perth dentist who was slapped with 25 charges of drink spiking and rape has been found guilty on all but one of them.
Farzam Mehrabi, 34, met the women, all aged between 18 and 20, in various Perth bars before inviting them back to his parents’ house in Shelley.
Farzam Mehrabi is accused of drugging and raping multiple young women.Credit: Nine News Perth
Multiple women came forward claiming he had sexually assaulted and drugged them after meeting them on dating apps Tinder and Bumble. The incidents all occurred over a two-month period in 2022.
State prosecutors claim Mehrabi, then aged 31, mixed a cocktail of drugs including MDMA, MDA, lorazepam and methamphetamine into drinks he bought or made for them before engaging in rough non-consensual sex.
Mehrabi, who was born in Iran and moved to Australia as a child, was a third-year medical student at Notre Dame University.
Seven women in total made complaints to the police forming a total of 25 charges against Mehrabi including sexual penetration without consent, unlawful and indecent assault, impeding another person’s breathing by applying pressure to the neck, offering to sell and supply drugs, supplying a prohibited drug, and stupefying in order to commit an indictable offence.
During the opening of the month-long trial, prosecutor David Davidson told the jury how Mehrabi lied about his age when matching with the women online before allegedly engaging in conversations about his drug use during dates with them.
The jury heard Mehrabi bragged about how he only used “the purest stuff you can get” that he had bought from Switzerland.
One girl, who woke up in Mehrabi’s bed with scratches and bruises, feeling nauseous and dizzy with her teeth chattering and no recollection of the night before, recorded a phone call with him a few days later, which was played to the jury.
The court heard the woman asking Mehrabi what had happened on the night.
“I’m so confused, because I’ve never been blackout drunk before, and we only had four drinks,” she is heard saying.
“You can be honest with me, if you gave me something, just tell me.”
Mehrabi can be heard promising the woman he did not give her anything and claims that they were just both intoxicated from alcohol.
But defence lawyer Simon Freitag told the jury that while Mehrabi admitted putting drugs into the drink, he did so with the woman’s consent and open knowledge.
On Wednesday the jury found Mehrabi did stupefy the women in order to commit an offence and sexually penetrated them without their consent. They did find him not guilty on one charge of stupefying.
Mehrabi was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on December 17.