SYDNEY, April 22: Four Pakistani brothers, who had emigrated to Australia, were jailed for between 10 and 22 years on Thursday for the gang rape of two teenaged girls in Sydney.

The court heard the men repeatedly raped two girls aged 16 and 17 at knife-point at the brothers' family home in Sydney in July 2002. The brothers, aged between 17 and 25, migrated to Sydney at different times from 2000 and during their trial claimed they knew nothing of the Australian justice system.

They cannot be identified because the two youngest brothers were aged under 18 at the time of the crime. Two, aged 25 and 17, were jailed for 22 years, a third aged 23 received a 16-year sentence and another aged 19 received 10 years. -AFP