Hot Chocolate Rapist Refuses to Pay Compensation to His Victims

The 51-year-old rapist Harry Barkas, mostly known as the Hot Chocolate Rapist, appeared in court in order to avoid paying compensation to his victims.

As The Border Mail reports, Barkas appeared via video link from prison before the Supreme Court judge Jennifer Davies on April 18 for a directions hearing into the compensation case.

Barkas was found guilty to raping three women between 1991 and 2005 and was sentenced to at least nine years in May 2010. Barkas refuses to pay compensations awarded to the victims, which amount to $100,000 for one of the victims and to $40,000 for each of the other two victims.

The Director of Public Prosecutions claims that Barkas, his mother, Helen, and his sister, Stella own a joint property and bank account and wants to use Barka’s third share in an investment property at Bentleigh and his third share in a $24,000 bank account to pay the compensation.

Barkas claimed that he doesn’t own this property, by filing an affidavit stating that he has no interest in the property left to him, his mother and sister.

The compensation case would be listed for trial on a date to be fixed. Barkas and his mother and sister are given deadline dates to file any additional documentation.

Barkas was called the hot chocolate rapist as two women said that he had offered them hot chocolate to drink. However, their cases didn’t go on trial. At the beginning he was charged with 23 rapes committed in the early 1990’s, but he escaped these charges, which were dropped after pleading guilty of the three rape charges.

The three women involved in the cases, were drugged, most likely by Rohypnol. Two of them had woken up while Barkas was raping them. The other one had remained unconscious until the next day that she woke up and found him in her bed without pants.

He also had a long-time friendship with the serial rapist John Xydias, who also drugged his victims. Xydias was jailed in 2009 for at least 20 years.