A RAPIST and a remand prisoner recaptured after two nights on the run in remote Western Australia have faced court charged with escaping custody, aggravated robbery and stealing a vehicle.
Rapist Cameron John Graham, 22, and Kelden Edward Fraser, 23, who was on remand, escaped while being transferred from Greenough Regional Prison in Geraldton, in the state's Mid West, back to Perth on Friday afternoon.
Graham was jailed in November for 11 years for breaking into a woman's home and repeatedly raping her. He had been sent to Geraldton to be closer to his family at Christmas.
The prisoners were not handcuffed and the door of the van was not locked.
They allegedly stole a car and were captured at 1am (WST) on Sunday when police used a plane to find their camp around Mullewa, near Geraldton.
Both appeared in Geraldton Court via video link from Greenough Regional Prison on Monday and will appear again on January 30.
Meanwhile, the father of Graham's victim has spoken on her behalf, saying the family felt let down by the justice system and the state government.
"This person breaks in and commits this horrendous crime and yet he gets the privileges," he told The West Australian newspaper.
"He's sent to Geraldton at the taxpayers' expense to be near family, yet my daughter - who is the victim in this crime - can't be near her family.
"She has to be overseas away from her family because she's too terrified to be in this country."
Graham threatened to murder the woman's sleeping children before repeatedly raping her and forcing her to drive to an ATM to withdraw cash.
The woman's father said she could not be on her own any more and was on antidepressants.
"It's put a strain on her relationship with her husband, it's affected the children, it's affected the whole family," he said.
The cost of the operation to capture the escapees has not yet been revealed, but the state government may bill Serco, the company responsible for prisoner transport.
Prisoners can be temporarily transferred to another facility to maintain family relationships if it is deemed helpful to their rehabilitation.
But Corrective Services minister Joe Francis told AAP someone had made a "very, very dumb" decision in allowing this transfer, and said Serco had failed in its obligations.
He said he would try to contact the woman to apologise.
Serco is investigating the incident.
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