Monster sex offender whose victim lost two litres of blood after he violently raped her in a stairwell is found hiding in a hut after 'cutting off his GPS tracker six weeks ago'
- Victorian sex offender who was on the run for more than six weeks was found
- Christopher Empey was found hiding in a remote national park in NSW
- He allegedly cut off his GPS tracker after skipping a court appearance
A Victorian sex offender who was on the run for more than six weeks has been found hiding in a remote national park after allegedly cutting off his GPS tracker.
Christopher Empey, 46, was arrested at Tin Mine Hut in the Kosciuszko National Park in NSW about 5pm on Wednesday.
Empey is believed to have disappeared in response to a police request to have him placed on a serious sex offenders register so that he could continue to be monitored after his parole had finished.
The court was going to put the order in place on November 23, but Empey allegedly cut off his GPS tracker, took $10,000 from his safe and disappeared.
Christopher Empey, 46, was arrested at Tin Mine Hut in the Kosciuszko National Park in NSW about 5pm on Wednesday
The 46-year-old was convicted in November 2003 of brutally raping and stomping on the head of a 30-year-old colleague.
The assault occurred in the stairwell of a Southbank apartment building in July of 2003.
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The victim was found drenched in two litres of her own blood with multiple facial fractures, brain damage, genital injuries and a partially severed right ear.
She previously told The Age the trauma of the incident has stayed with her ever since.
A Victorian sex offender who was on the run for more than six weeks has been found hiding in a remote national park after allegedly cutting off his GPS tracker
Empey was last spotted in Nowra, on the NSW south coast, in December
'You try to put it behind you and move forward but it never leaves you,' she said.
Bernard Teague, the judge who sentenced Empey, described him as a monster.
Empey was released from prison in 2015 but had only recently finished his parole when police lodged their application to monitor him further.
He is expected to appear in Cooma Local Court on Thursday where detectives will apply for his extradition to Victoria.
Empey has been on the run since November 24, when his court-ordered GPS tracking bracelet was found smashed to pieces along the Hume Highway.
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