Convicted Cairns rapist Marcus Allyn Keith Martin facing fresh charges

The North Queensland rapist who kidnapped a British backpacker in 2017 is now facing fresh charges while serving 10 years behind bars.

A North Queensland rapist who kidnapped a British backpacker is now facing fresh charges for attacking two prison guards while serving 10 years behind bars.

Cairns man Marcus Allyn Keith Martin admitted to the rape and kidnapping of a British backpacker before holding her captive on a road trip in 2017 through the Queensland bush.

The bruised and battered Liverpool woman was rescued by police on an outback highway near Mitchell, about 600km west of Brisbane, after driving off from a petrol station without paying for fuel.

Marcus Allyn Keith Martin pleaded guilty to rape and deprivation of liberty charges over horror roadtrip through regional Queensland.

He was sentenced to 10 years in jail in May, 2019 for rape and 26 other charges.

As a declared serious violent offender, he was required to serve 80 per cent of the sentence before being eligible for parole.

Covered with additional facial and arm tattoos, Martin appeared via video link from custody in the Townsville Correctional Centre on Wednesday, to be sentenced for the serious assault of a corrective services officer causing bodily harm.

Police prosecutor Mark Fenlon said there was a fresh charge of serious assault of a corrective services officer which would come before the magistrates court at the end of the month.

Martin was found by police hiding in the back of this vehicle. Picture: Supplied.

Mr Fenlon intended to seek more than six months imprisonment for each of the additional charges — which would be cumulative on Martin’s existing jail sentence.

He asked Magistrate Smid for an adjournment to allow both matters to be dealt with at the same time.

Marcus Allyn Keith Martin had additional facial tattoos when he appeared in Townsville Magistrates Court. Picture: Sunday Night.

Magistrate Smid agreed with the prosecutor that it was the “tidy thing to do for all matters to be disposed of at the same time, whichever way it goes”.

Representing himself, Martin asked the magistrate whether it was possible to finalise his charges with guilty pleas at his next court date.

While he personally “found it very attractive” for a guilty plea to all charges to be dealt with there and then, Mr Smid couldn’t speak for whichever presiding magistrate “may have another view and want to put it on the long plea list”.

“But nothing stops you ... from dealing with the matters on that day, but whether that happens, I don’t know,” he said.

Martin will return to court at a later date.

Originally published as Convicted Cairns rapist Marcus Allyn Keith Martin facing fresh charges