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The Salt Creek attacker is accused of raping another woman.

The man who attacked two young backpackers at South Australia’s Salt Creek is also accused of tying up and raping a Tasmanian woman whom he met on a dating website.

The 60-year-old is on trial in the South Australian Supreme Court accused of sexually assaulting the woman who visited him in Adelaide after they established a relationship over the phone.

It can now be revealed that he is the same man who attacked a Brazilian woman and a German woman on a remote beach, east of Adelaide, in February 2016.

He met the 24-year-old backpackers through classifieds website Gumtree, where the Brazilian woman had advertised for a ride from Adelaide to Melbourne.

The man drove them to a spot among the rugged sand dunes at Salt Creek, in SA’s Coorong National Park, where he violently attacked them both before they escaped.

He tied up the Brazilian woman with ropes and sexually assaulted her and then came after the German with a hammer, hitting her several times over the head before ramming her with his 4WD.

A Supreme Court jury in March found him guilty of six charges over that attack, including indecent assault, aggravated kidnapping and endangering life but he is yet to be sentenced.

He is now on trial before a judge alone for unlawfully detaining and raping the Tasmanian woman in Morphett Vale, in Adelaide’s South, in January 2016.

The woman came to visit him for Christmas and one night, when she was asleep, he allegedly tied her hands to the bed railing and raped her, a prosecutor said on Tuesday.

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