A man accused of keeping women in servitude allegedly got one tattooed after drugging her, a court has heard.
Matthew James Markcrow was committed to stand trial on more than a dozen charges in the Brisbane Magistrate Court on Monday.
The charges against the 38-year-old include three counts of conducting a business involving servitude and two counts of attempting to conduct a business involving servitude.
Those counts involve five women.
One woman alleges she was forcibly made to have a tattoo after being stupefied with a drug and taken to a tattoo artist by Markcrow while under the effects of the drug, the court heard.
The woman says she woke up in the morning with a tattoo.
Other women subject to alleged servitude did not describe being drugged, prosecutor Lana Maleckas said.
“Their statements do state that some of them agreed to be tattooed because they were fearful."
Markcrow has been in custody since his arrest in February 2021 on a string of charges.
Prosecutors alleged earlier that women were given stupefying drugs, subject to controlled living, financial and work conditions, and had been tattooed as being his property.
Images on Markcrow's social media at the time of his first court appearance showed four images of "property of Matt M" topped with images of devil's pitchfork and an angel halo.
"If I had all the names it would look more like a scroll," Markcrow posted under the images.
Markcrow was also committed to stand trial on one count each of malicious act with intent, knowingly carry on a business providing illegal prostitution and observations or recordings in breach of privacy.
Markcrow is also accused of supplying dangerous drugs and failing to supply device passwords to police.
The alleged offences occurred over about two years before his arrest.
Magistrate Anne Thacker committed Markcrow to stand trial in the Brisbane District Court on a date yet to be decided.
She dismissed some charges for which prosecutors offered no evidence.
Markcrow is expected to apply for bail, which will be opposed by prosecutors, on another date.
