A woman had been homeless for only two nights and was trying to sleep under a Werribee bridge when she was set on and gang raped.

Two refugees from Myanmar, Kapling Hlawnceu and Thwang Za Lian, pleaded guilty to her rape on Friday in Melbourne’s County Court. They will be sentenced at a later date.

Neither man has offered a motive to his lawyer, beyond the fact that they were drunk at the time.

The woman had been kicked out of her home on August 12 last year after an argument with her partner.

Two nights later, on a cold August Monday, she was trying to get to sleep in the undergrowth beneath Werribee’s Bicentennial Bridge when the men came across her.