FIVE women were raped at knifepoint in their own homes by a man who disguised his face before blindfolding and tying them up, an Adelaide jury has been told.
One woman was tied up on her bed after hearing the man open the door to the room where her three daughters were sleeping, said crown prosecutor Sandi McDonald on Tuesday.
He returned, pulled her out of her bed, put her in her car, drove a short distance and then raped her in the back seat, Ms McDonald said in the crown opening address in the South Australian Supreme Court.
Phillip Gordon Lindsay, 52, has pleaded not guilty to five counts of burglary, 12 of rape, one of false imprisonment and one of taking a motor vehicle without consent.
The offences took place in Adelaide in the early hours of the morning between February 1990 and January 1993.
Ms McDonald said DNA from all the rapes matched Lindsay's DNA.
The five women came from different backgrounds, from different walks of life and did not know each other, she said.
"Those are the five women whose homes were invaded and those were the five women who were raped during the period between 1990 and 1993.
"On each occasion, he forced his way into the house while they were asleep.
"He disguised himself. He threatened them with a knife. He bound and gagged them with their own clothing."
One woman, who was alone in her home with her seven-week old baby, was woken by a man who had one of her infant's nappies wrapped around his head.
Another woman who was raped had tried to get rid of him by saying her husband would be home soon.
Ms McDonald said the man had then taken the woman's car, which was found the next day in easy walking distance from the house Lindsay had rented at the time.
Referring to the DNA evidence, Ms McDonald said Lindsay had four brothers.
But she said one died before the rapes, one was in jail at the time, and a third's DNA did not match the rape samples.
The fourth brother was alive at the time of the offences, but has since died.
Ms McDonald alleged that the DNA from the crime scenes was 6,305 more times likely to match the DNA of Lindsay, than his brother, and extra testing resulted in that statistic increasing to 159,000.
Paul Charman, for Lindsay, warned the jury that DNA can never identify anyone.
All it could do was show statistical relationships between samples taken at a crime scene and from various people.
"It does not mean there are no other people on this planet that will be a match," he said.
The trial is continuing.
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