An accused rapist has allegedly admitted driving around Melbourne and picking up young women.
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Karl Bacash is charged with raping three intoxicated and vulnerable women he picked up in his car between 2017 and 2018.
The 56-year-old allegedly told police he'd driven around "many times" and spotted people who looked lost.
But he denies the rape charges against him.
"I do drive around, yes. I have stopped, spoken to girls, picked up girls," Bacash allegedly told police.
He was charged in May with four counts of rape, six of sexual assault and two of drugging women.
It's alleged a 27-year-old was sexually assaulted and raped twice on the side of an Oakleigh road after being picked up near Richmond in April 2017.
Prosecutors said she was extremely intoxicated and couldn't remember getting into the car, with her number later found saved in Bacash's phone.
Another woman, 34, was allegedly given a white powder substance and raped at Bacash's home after being offered a lift at Fitzroy in January 2018.
One month later, Bacash is alleged to have drugged, sexually assaulted and raped a 24-year-old woman after giving her a lift.
Magistrate Andrew Capell on Monday questioned lawyers' plans to cross-examine multiple women, some over alleged encounters as far back as 2000.
"He admits he drives around and picks up people," Mr Capell told Melbourne Magistrates Court.
"Women sometimes off their face, so to speak, and (who) has no memory and is alerted to it by police contacting them, what are they going to offer?"
The magistrate added the connections between some of these women and Bacash were numbers that ended up in the latter's phone.
Prosecutor Joe Connolly told the court even if some of the alleged encounters were not sexual, they formed part of Bacash's modus operandi.
White powder or cocaine was allegedly found at his property and police said he offered it to women.
Bacash was granted bail in the Supreme Court in June, despite police fears it would put vulnerable women at risk.
His case is due back in court next week.
Australian Associated Press