A MONSTER was jailed for nine years yesterday for the vicious rape of a 65-year-old woman in a McDonald's drive-through in Rockhampton.

Benjamin Anthony-Lee Hunter, 20, slouched his shoulders in Rockhampton District Court yesterday as Crown prosecutor Julie Marsden described his actions as “nothing less than monstrous”.

Ms Marsden said the victim, who turns 67 today, had been walking through the south Rockhampton drive-through of the McDonald's restaurant early on February 29, 2008, when Hunter attacked her.

The woman could not speak properly and kept mostly to herself, the court heard.

She did not have normal external genitals after undergoing surgery to remove all of her sexual organs.

Hunter attacked her around 3am.

He knocked her to the ground, bashed her to the face and raped her.

“I'm going to kill you and rape you,” Hunter told her.

During the vicious attack the woman's colostomy bag was knocked onto the ground.

Police found her unconscious in the car park, her shoes removed and a wound bleeding above her right eye.

She had been rushed to hospital and put into its Intensive Care Unit.

The woman had bleeding on the brain, her spine was fractured, and there were lacerations to her face and abrasions on her elbows, hands and knees.

There was significant bruising on her face and neck and severe abrasions to her vagina.

The woman spent three days in intensive care and then was admitted to the general ward for two weeks.

Her injuries were treated, but she didn't require surgery.

Security footage from the drive-through showed Hunter at the scene.

He was interviewed a number of times by police, but kept denying the attack and further lied, saying that he didn't know who the woman was.

Hunter finally admitted the attack and told police he had smoked 40 to 50 cones in the 30 minutes before carrying it out.

Defence barrister Jeff Clarke described the offence as “horrible”.

He told the court Hunter had a dysfunctional upbringing and started using drugs at a young age.

Mr Clarke said his client was bullied at school and was only seven or eight years old when he tried to take his own life.

Hunter pleaded guilty yesterday to one count each of rape, grievous bodily harm and attempted rape.

Ms Marsden, who described the attack as “a monstrous act”, said the maximum penalty for rape was a life sentence.

Given that Hunter had pleaded guilty to the offences, Judge John Newton took into consideration that extra stress was not put on the victim, who didn't need to give evidence in a trial.

Ms Marsden asked that Hunter be imprisoned for 10 to 12 years.

Judge Newton sentenced Hunter to nine years behind bars and declared him a serious violent offender.

Hunter will be eligible for release from prison before he turns 30, but has to serve at least 80% of his sentence.