A serial predator who hunted down and raped young Korean women he taught English for his own perverted gratification has been jailed for 18-and-a-half years.
Ashraf Kamal Makary, 42, sat motionless in the dock of the Brisbane District Court on Friday as he was sentenced for two counts of rape, one attempted rape and three counts of administering a stupefying drug.
But it was the expression on the qualified teacher's face during his victims' evidence at trial that caused Justice Leanne Clare most concern.
"You smiled through the most difficult parts of their cross-examination," she said during sentencing.
"You have not one shred of remorse of empathy."
Justice Clare was scathing in her assessment of the Egyptian national, describing him as a "true serial predator" who deliberately hunted three young Korean women who were living and travelling in Australia to improve their English.
"You devised a wicked plan, you set a trap and you lured the prey," she said.
The qualified teacher contacted the women - aged 19, 20 and 24 - on a language exchange website with the intention of raping them.
He emailed and texted them over a period of weeks to encourage them to meet him.
Justice Clare noted he brought his own "rape kit" of wine and sleeping pills to the meetings, where he drugged them and took them to his house for up to 12 hours.
Defence barrister Joshua Fenton argued his client's offending was less serious because there was no gratuitous violence.
However Justice Clare said Makary's drugging of victims was the most serious aspect of his crimes.
"You are the only person who knows what you did to them," she said.
The court heard the women's lives had been permanently changed because of Makary's offending.
One of the women had an abortion because of her fear it was his baby.
Justice Clare said Makary had no psychological issues, rather the assaults occurred to meet his own "perverted gratification".
"Your capacity for such inhumanity presents a serious risk for the community," she said.
The court heard Makary had no prior criminal history, but he was convicted of another rape while he was on bail in April 2012.
He will be sentenced for that matter next week.
Makary will be eligible for parole after he has served 15 years, in 2031.
