Push for rapist to go home

A PSYCHIATRIST believes a convicted Cairns rapist, who is being held at a Brisbane halfway house, should be allowed to visit his Far North Queensland family.

Dirk Gregory Kynuna was jailed for eight years in 2002 for rape and indecent treatment of a child. He was released on a supervision order in April 2011, but has breached the order six times.

A Supreme Court judgment revealed that Dr Josephine Sundin believes that without a supervision order Kynuna would “abuse intoxicants, especially in the setting of emotional dysregulation and that the victims would likely be teenagers or young women”.

Kynuna met the diagnosis of anti-social personality disorder with prominent psychopathic traits and suffered from polysubstance abuse disorder.

Dr Sundin said Kynuna had a passive aggressive attitude toward supervision and complained about his order.

Dr Sundin said it would be “beneficial” to move Kynuna out of the halfway house “as fast as possible” to emphasise the importance of personal responsibility.

She believed a short trip to Cairns to catch up with family would “reinforce the benefits of developing and practising prosocial skills”.

Another psychiatrist Dr Scott Harden, who reviewed Kynuna’s material, was concerned that he had not obtained employment and did not have close relationships.

The judgment said that Kynuna had not offended for about 16 years and had completed all treatment programs. He has consented to remain under a supervision order for the next two years.