Kingsley Eugene Burgess, convicted this week of breaking into a woman?s home and raping her, had previously blindfolded and raped a tourist in her hotel room.

The plumber and mason, who was jailed for the maximum 30 years for his latest attack, struck at the Coral Island resort in 1978, can reveal.

He had only recently been released from jail having been convicted of a series of burglaries. In addition to the rape of the tourist, he was found guilty of assault with intent to rape and entering a dwelling house with intent to rape and jailed for ten years in March 1979.

When Burgess, 54, was sentenced on Tuesday for his latest offences, Puisne Justice Carlisle Greaves described him as ?so dangerous that he cannot mingle with other members of this society?.

The judge said Burgess had a total of 16 previous convictions for breaking and entering to his name, many involving the theft of expensive jewellery.

He had only been released from prison three months before he struck in Pembroke on November 12 last year, breaking in to his victim?s home through a window in the early hours and subjecting her to a serious sexual assault at knifepoint.

He then made the terrified woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, drive to an ATM and withdraw $1,000.

Puisne Justice Carlisle Greaves handed Burgess the maximum sentences possible for the four offences he was convicted of ? 30 years for serious sexual assault while armed, 20 for aggravated burglary while armed, 20 for robbery and seven for deprivation of liberty. All of these he ordered to run concurrently.

Defence lawyer Larry Scott said yesterday that he client would appeal the length of the sentence.

?Sex has always excited in the judiciary over the centuries (to) its most fearsome criticism,? he claimed. ?Murder most foul, drugs so decadent and fraud so pervasive have never moved the judiciary similarly.?