Wayne Robert Jarden has begun a 15-year jail term for two Christchurch home-invasion rapes.
He and elder brother Kevin Moana Jarden - himself a notorious sex offender - are now both serving long jail terms. Kevin Jarden is doing a preventive detention sentence.
Wayne Jarden, 51, was caught by DNA evidence long after the offences in 1988 and 1996.
One of his victims has endured 20 years of trauma as a result of the attack, and the other was a 90-year-old woman who died exactly three years after she was raped.
Christchurch District Court Judge Brian Callaghan imposed the jail terms at Jarden's sentencing today after he pleaded guilty to charges of burglary, burglary with a weapon, and two rapes.
In the first attack, he broke into a house at night and tied a woman to a table with strips of cloth he had cut from a duvet on the washing line, before raping her.
In the second attack, he pushed his way into the elderly woman's house and overpowered her before raping her while she pleaded for him to leave her alone.
Judge Callaghan said the first victim had been subjected to an undignified and humiliating attack and 20 years later she still had "real and significant trauma". The attack had been a woman's worst nightmare.
The family of the elderly woman read a victim impact report at the sentencing and a video showing the woman speaking about the attack was played to the court.
Defence counsel Tony Garrett acknowledged the dignity with which the family had conducted itself. He spoke of Jarden's "intellectual limitations".
Crown prosecutor Kerryn Beaton spoke of Jarden's degrading and cruel conduct toward the first victim. He had left her tied up, to make her own escape.
Judge Callaghan said a lengthy prison term would mean the Parole Board would only consider release under conditions of stringent and careful investigation and planning, and he decided not to impose minimum non-parole terms.
He noted that Jarden was now older and anecdotal evidence suggested that offending diminished when offenders were aged in their 50s and 60s. Jarden had not been "in the eye of the law" for anything really since 1996.
He imposed a seven-year jail term for the first rape, and added an eight-year term for the second. A concurrent term was imposed for the burglary charges.
