A coronial inquest has heard the men suspected of the 1974 killings of two Sydney nurses had a habit of abducting women, taking them to the bush, beating them and raping them. The skeletal remains of nurses Lorraine Wilson, 20, and Wendy Evans, 18, were found in a paddock in Murphys Creek, west of Toowoomba. The young women disappeared while hitch-hiking across southeast Queensland two years earlier. Lorraine Ruth Wilson (left) and Wendy Joy Evans photographed one month before they went missing. Trevor Hilton, the uncle of key suspect Wayne "Boogie" Hilton, told the inquest on Wednesday his nephew and his mates would ambush young women in Toowoomba's main street on a weekly basis. He said the group of men were "always pulling young sheilas in cars, taking 'em down the bush, chucking them in boots." Sometimes there used to be three car loads of them. Crime scene photographs of the location where the bodies of Lorraine Ruth Wilson and Wendy Joy Evans were found in 1978. They used to go down [to Ruthven Street] about 5 o'clock and stay there until they got someone ... They were very violent people. Mr Hilton said the group of men, which included now deceased man Allan John "Shorty" Laurie, Donald "Donny" Laurie, and Larry Charles, was notorious about town. Debbie Sneddon and Michele Tuitifu, the stepsisters of slain nurse Wendy Evans, outside court. Photo: Marissa Calligeros "Everybody in the town knew what was going on," he said. I don't know why it wasn't stopped in them days, because then those nurses would probably still be alive. Mr Hilton said Wayne Hilton once told him he was part of the racket getting around town raping women. Lorraine Ruth Wilson (left) and Wendy Joy Evans were found murdered in 1978 after they went missing in 1974. It was not only him. They just had a group and they would get around altogether, every weekend," he said. Later, Darryl Sutton told the court he also witnessed his former friend Wayne Hilton commit violent assaults. "I seen him bash women, I seen him bash blokes," he said. He said Mr Hilton kept a tyre lever under the front seat of his EJ Holden and would use it "if he didn't get his way." "Did you ever go to the police about these assaults you saw?"," counsel assisting the coroner Craig Chowdhury asked. Who was going to stand up to those boys in them days? Mr Sutton replied. Mr Sutton recalled Mr Hilton once ""crying in the back seat saying, 'I didn't mean to hurt the girls'." He said Mr Hilton changed after that. He seem upset all the time. He didn't seem himself. He was a violent man, always with the anger, but after that he was quiet. On Tuesday Neil Shum told the inquest his former employee Wayne Hilton once confessed to him that he and his brother murdered the two nurses at the bottom of the Toowoomba range. Three surviving persons of interest in the nurses' killings Allan Neil 'Ungie' Laurie, Terrance James "Jimmy" O'Neill and Desmond Roy Hilton are due to take the stand on Wednesday. The inquest continues.