A convicted murderer has had his parole revoked and has been refused bail after allegedly committing a serious sexual assault in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains earlier this year.
Crown prosecutors allege the recently paroled 52-year-old David Maxwell Shepherd had sexual intercourse with a woman known to him without her consent in Cooma in March this year.
Shepherd faced a bail review hearing in Cooma Local Court on Wednesday via video link from Silverwater Correctional Complex's remand centre after his parole was revoked.
Prosecutors told the court Shepherd committed the alleged offence shortly after being released on parole.
He had served time behind bars for strangling a woman to death in 2006.
The court heard Shepherd had killed the woman after she stopped a sexual relationship with him and that the nature of the new allegation was similar to his past offending.
Prosecutors told the court Shepherd, who is yet to enter a plea, is facing significant time behind bars if found guilty.
The court heard Shepherd had been in a relationship with the woman for a number of months before the alleged assault and prosecutors argued there was an unacceptable risk he may return to the woman's home if granted bail.
Shepherd's Queanbeyan-based lawyer Rosemary Benet opposed the court's detention application, saying her client had been compliant with his parole until the allegation of assault.
Ms Benet told the court the parole board was aware of the nature of the 2006 murder and had granted her client parole.
Magistrate Roger Clisdell told the court the prosecution's case against Shepherd had "beefed up quite a bit" since he granted Shepherd bail earlier this year with the condition he wear an electronic ankle bracelet.
On Wednesday, a visibly upset Shepherd shook his head and placed his head in his hands after Magistrate Clisdell revoked his bail.
"[The revocation of bail] is justified because his parole has been revoked," Magistrate Clisdell told the court.
Shepherd will face court again in October.
