A Brisbane man has been found guilty of drugging and raping two Korean women, and attempting to rape a third, after meeting them on a language exchange website.
Ashraf Kamal Makary, 42, had pleaded not guilty to charges including three counts of rape and three counts of administering a stupefying drug with intent to commit an indictable offence, at the start of his trial in the Brisbane District Court last month.
But a jury on Wednesday morning convicted him of all charges except one count of rape, instead finding him guilty of the alternative count of attempted rape, after retiring on Tuesday afternoon.
In his opening address, crown prosecutor David Finch told the jury his three alleged victims were all young Korean women working and travelling in Australia with a view to improving their English skills.
"You will perhaps see an underlying pattern or unity emerge (of) striking similarities," Mr Finch told the jury.
Makary posted advertisements on a website called SunBrisbane, used to organise cultural and language exchanges, using names including "Chuck" and "Andrew".
He took two of the women to Mount Coot-tha and another to New Farm where he offered them drinks and snacks, after which they would become dizzy and suffer from memory loss.
One woman could only recall "snapshots" of the April 2011 meeting and woke up lying in a bed with the man she knew as Andrew moving in to kiss her.
The court was told he then pulled her legs towards him, at which point she said: "I don't like it, I want to go home".
Another woman suffered vomiting after returning home feeling "heavy", he said.
Urine and blood tests from some of the women had shown traces of drugs known as central nervous system depressants.
Makary is expected to be sentenced on Friday.
