Pack rapist Mohammed Skaf's mother and sister contract Covid-19 ahead of his ...

The imminent release from prison of notorious pack rapist Mohammed Skaf has been complicated by his mother and sister testing positive to Covid.

But the family is still 'excited and happy' about him coming home, breaking their silence about his return for the first time on Thursday.  

Skaf is due to be freed early next month after more than 20 years behind bars and it was planned he live with his family in Sydney's south-western suburbs. 

Daily Mail Australia can reveal his mother and younger sister were diagnosed with Covid-19 last week and are self-isolating at their Greenacre home.

Skaf's father and younger brother Hadi are also self-isolating in the recently renovated house but have not contracted the virus. 

Oldest brother Bilal, who led a gang of Lebanese-Australian teenagers including Mohammed on a spree of pack rapes shortly before the 2000 Olympics, remains in custody. 

The Skafs expect to be in isolation for the next week and a half and are unsure if Mohammed will be able to join them as soon as he leaves jail.   

Skaf's sister said despite the late hurdle the family was excited ahead of her reviled 38-year-old brother's release on parole.

'We're looking forward to him coming home and hopefully he'll start a life that we've never experienced before,' she said. 'We're pretty excited and happy for him to come home.' 

The sister, who is in her mid 20s, said her family would discuss where Mohammed should stay when he gets out with Community Corrections, which supervises paroled prisoners.

'We're in the process of working on things,' she said. 'We don't actually know what's going to happen. 

'We also don't even know whether he'll be coming home or not or going somewhere else; we're not too sure about that.' 

Community Corrections will also review Mohammed living at the Greenacre address after youngest sibling Hadi pleaded guilty to supplying cocaine and dealing with the proceeds of crime. 

A Corrective Services New South Wales spokeswoman said: 'Community Corrections conduct a thorough risk assessment of an offender's accommodation as part of release planning and this continues throughout the period of parole supervision.'

'If circumstances change, we can take measures to ensure a parolee is appropriately housed to meet the conditions of their supervision.'

Mohammed was granted parole on September 17 under strict conditions including that he be electronically monitored 24 hours a day. 

His family home sits on a quiet bottlebrush-lined street and is about 1.7km from Gosling Park where one of the Skaf gang's pack rapes occurred on August 12, 2000.

Mohammed, then 17, had lured a 16-year-old girl to the park where Bilal and another gang member raped her while a dozen more young men stood around laughing. 

The second gang member held a gun to the teen's head and kicked her in the stomach before she was able to escape. The girl had believed Mohammed was her friend.

Two days earlier members of the gang, led by Bilal, took two teenagers aged 17 and 18 to a toilet block at Northcote Park where they were forced to perform oral sex on eight males over two hours.

That park is 750m from the Skaf family home. 

Less than three weeks after the Gosling Park attack, on August 30, 2000, Mohammed was the leader of four young men who approached an 18-year-old woman at Bankstown train station.  

Skaf took the young woman's phone and led her to public toilets in nearby Marion Street where he pushed her face against a wall and asked if she liked it 'Leb style'.

The woman was raped 25 times by 14 attackers at three locations in an ordeal that lasted six hours. She was called an 'Aussie pig' and asked if 'Leb c*** tasted better than Aussie c***' before being sprayed with a fire hose. 

Hadi Skaf was just 11 months old at the time of those outrages. He has lived in the same street near the Gosling and Northcote Park rapes for most of his life. 

Over the past year Hadi has been in and out of Sydney courts on a string of drug-related and driving offences. His most recent case was mentioned on Monday.  

The 22-year-old labourer came to the attention of police on June 12 when officers were conducting an operation targeting drug suppliers near Surry Hills pubs. 

About 7.20pm police saw Hadi using a navigation app on his mobile phone while in the front passenger seat of a silver Toyota Corolla being driven by another man near the Dolphin Hotel. 

While police watched from an unmarked car parked on the corner of Crown and Fitzroy Streets, a woman tried three times to open the locked passenger-side back door.