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The clean-cut lawyer who allegedly gang raped a teenage girl on a bucks weekend has also been charged with molesting a second girl the previous night.
Maurice Hawell, 28, was arrested earlier this month after a three month investigation into the alleged attacks at the warehouse-style unit in Newcastle West, NSW.
The western Sydney solicitor is a former private Catholic school boy at the private Patrician Brothers' College in Fairfield and works at a firm in Sydney's CBD.
Police allege he and groom-to-be Andrew David, 28, sexually assaulted a 19-year-old girl around 11pm on February 26 after she was allegedly lured back to the Airbnb.
But Daily Mail Australia can now reveal Maurice Hawell is also facing a charge of sexually touching a second, different, girl between 10pm and midnight on February 25.
Maurice Hawell, 28, was arrested earlier this month after a three month investigation into the alleged attack at the warehouse-style unit in Newcastle West, NSW (pictured)
Clean-cut lawyer Maurice Hawell who allegedly gang raped a teenage girl on a bucks weekend has also been charged with molesting a second girl the previous night
The gang rape is alleged to have taken place at the $555-a-night three-bedroom converted industrial-style flat in Parry Street, close to the city's party zone.
The alleged attacks happened just a few days after