Mr Sonnet said it also included a home invasion, weapons, use of drugs, restraints and multiple acts of sexual penetration. He had told earlier Judge Phillip Coish that Brooke and Morris smashed a window to gain entry, kicked in a locked bedroom door to reach the victims and then bound them before forcing each to swallow sleeping tablets. "Before the tablets took effect, [they] repeatedly raped the victims," Mr Sonnet said, adding that the man had also subjected the women to threats and racist taunts. The men stole items including computer equipment, mobile phones, jewellery and wallets before leaving after which they were arrested several hours later and made "significant" admissions. Brooke, 38, and Morris, 49, each pleaded guilty in July to seven charges of rape, two each of false imprisonment and administer a drug for the purposes of sexual penetration and single counts of armed robbery and aggravated burglary.

Brooke, a storeman forklift driver, has prior convictions that include rape and false imprisonment from 1993, armed robbery and using a telecommunications service to menace. The Crown accepted that a court appearance by Morris, a meat boner, for marijuana offences in 1999 was irrelevant. Both men reappeared before Judge Coish on Monday via videolink from prison when their case was adjourned until November. Mr Sonnet said that in her victim impact statement, the mother, aged in her 40s, spoke of feeling terrified, panicked and scared throughout the ordeal and that she was "greatly humiliated" and left with low self esteem. He added that her daughter was so traumatised by the attack she took five days in short sessions to compile her police statement.

In her victim impact statement, the woman's daughter told of once being a happy person with a positive outlook on life. "I was happy in my own skin, in my own body," she wrote. "After what happened all that has changed." Life was no longer enjoyable and "I am no longer confident in my own body", she said. "When I look at myself in the mirror, I see what the men see," she wrote. "It is a disgusting feeling. It makes me feel dirty." The woman, in her mid 20s, spoke of growing up in Australia with racist remarks which was always unacceptable "but I have learned to block it off and put it behind me".

But "during the attack on my mum and myself it had impacted on me on a more personal level" because "it was not just my race and culture, but my self worth as a woman and as a person was affected". Mr Sonnet said each woman suffered scratches, cuts, bruising or abrasions to their bodies. In his prosecution opening, Mr Sonnet said that while drinking over several hours the men "discussed what it would be like to rape a woman" and that they "decided it would be 'fun' to rape someone". In formulating their plan to attend the home of the women, they were "selected" partly because Brooke "hates Asians". To implement it, they got rope to bind the women, gloves to conceal fingerprints and a balaclava and stockings for disguises and also took condoms and a jemmy bar while Morris, unbeknown to Brooke, took medication to drug the victims.

Morris later told police he had no reason for raping the women and was "just disgusted in himself", said Mr Sonnet, while Brooke stated he needed money. He also denied having anything against Asians and when asked his reasons for the offences replied: "No, just ... I honestly don't know. Just being stupid ... just I'm sorry. It's stupid. I shouldn't have done it." Rebekah Haylock, for Morris, said his client, a father of two and a grandfather, had had a dysfunctional family background in Queensland and was a long time abuser of alcohol and, later, methamphetamine, both of which he had consumed on the night. Ms Haylock said Morris described himself as a "loner" whose only friend was Brooke and while he had told police that he "just does what Mat says" he did not blame him. They had talked, "one thing led to another" and he felt frightened, but "it was the two of us", he admitted.

Morris expressed "deep, intense" shame for his conduct and, as reported to a psychologist and a psychiatrist who delivered assessments, understood the "terrible" effect his conduct had had on the victims. She urged Judge Coish to give "powerful" mitigating weight to Morris' guilty pleas, his co-operation with investigators, lack of relevant prior convictions and low risk of reoffending. Defence lawyer Greg Thomas said Brooke had also made significant admissions to police when first arrested and then in his interview. Mr Thomas asked Judge Coish to find his client showed genuine contrition, awareness of the serious nature of the offences and had taken responsibility for them. Supported in court by his parents and partner, Brooke was aware of the "profound and lasting" effect of his conduct on the victims, he said, and submitted that despite his criminal record still had realistic prospects of rehabilitation.

A father of two, Brooke, who had known Morris for 10 years and had been taking ice on weekends and increasingly so, did not blame his friend for what happened. But Mr Thomas asked Judge Coish to be "cautious" with Morris' interview with police and the statements he made against his client. Mr Thomas submitted that Morris' admissions were not full and frank and he had attributed much to Brooke that he was responsible for. While he conceded the racist comments were an aggravating feature of the offending, Brooke denied that he was a racist or "bears any ill feeling towards the Asian community".