LAUNCESTON detectives have flown to South Australia to extradite one of the North's most infamous sex offenders.
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Mark Andrew Sinclair, now 35, was jailed eight years ago after pleading guilty to a sexually based rampage across Launceston.
The former Ravenswood resident is understood to have breached his parole in March after being released from jail late last year.
He is alleged to have left the state either beforehand or soon afterwards.
The rapist was sentenced to nine years' jail with a four-and-ahalf-year non-parole period in November 2002.
It is understood that Sinclair recently came to the attention of South Australian police over an unrelated matter, and it was at that point that it was found he was wanted in Tasmania.
Launceston's criminal investigation branch was notified as a result.
Launceston's Detective Senior Sergeant Paul Turner yesterday confirmed the extradition.
"We have today sent two detectives to Adelaide to carry out an extradition in relation to a Tasmanian man who is believed to have breached his bail," Detective Senior Sergeant Turner said.
Sinclair's sexual rampage first made front-page news on February 25, 2002, after he attacked four people between 5.55am and 8.30am in multiple locations between Launceston's CBD and Newstead.
First he followed a woman from Elizabeth Street to Yorktown Square where he attacked her from behind, pulling her backwards along a footpath.
He put his hand over the screaming victim's face, then hit her head repeatedly against the pavement.
He was next found in the Scotch Oakburn College boarding house outside a dormitory occupied by girls.
Frightened away by a staff member, Sinclair then attacked a 64-year- old Newstead woman with a one- metre piece of wood - but was disarmed by that victim's husband.
Undeterred, the then 27-year-old ended his rampage by raping a severely mentally and physically disabled woman, again at Newstead.
At the time of his sentencing, now- Chief Justice Ewan Crawford described Sinclair as having been "intent on finding a woman to rape, basically any woman".
The judge said his crimes had to be punished severely, "not merely as a general and personal deterrent, but by way of clear denunciation and retribution for such appalling criminal conduct".
It has not yet been revealed what Sinclair is alleged to have done to have breached his parole.
He is expected to arrive in this state under arrest this afternoon.