Face of Nation : A woman raped at gunpoint in 1981 died just before her attacker – released on the eve of his trial and on the run for 34 years – was finally re-arrested, a Sydney court has been told.
Wayne Andrew Rae Duck, 64, fled the state the day his 1984 trial was due to begin and spent decades living under false names in Victoria, Queensland and the Northern Territory before finally being brought back before a NSW court in 2018 to answer for his Anzac Day 1981 attack.
Before he was jailed for 14 years and eight months in the NSW District Court on Thursday the court heard the victim died in December 2017. “She no doubt had not been able to obtain any closure,” Judge Nicole Noman said. “She would not have known when and if the offender would be located and arrested.”
