'Beggars belief': Serial rapist released into complex where sexual assault victims live

Pressure is mounting on Western Australia's Attorney-General over a court decision to release a serial rapist into a complex that houses female sexual assault victims.

A women's support group says the system is flawed and fails to protect the vulnerable.

Advocates want to know how a rapist such as Nigel Pindan can be released from prison and housed alongside victims.

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"It almost beggars belief and your mind immediately goes to 'there must be some other rationale or reason behind this'," said Women's Health and Family Services CEO Felicite Black.

" … The focus needs to be on keeping those women, and I might add the wider community, safe."

In opposition, Attorney-General John Quigley demanded his then counterpart to toughen the state's "weak" dangerous sex offender laws.

"He has the power to step in on behalf of the community and ask the Supreme Court to cancel the release order in view of the breach," Mr Quigley said in 2014.

But on Monday Mr Quigley was unavailable to comment on Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Hill's ruling on Pindan.

The decision, delivered on March 18, ruled the proposed accommodation for the rapist was suitable despite WA Police considering it "very high risk" and the State Solicitor's Office saying it was "not suitable".

Some of the residents have been the subject of domestic violence or historic sexual assaults, according to the judgment.

"I am satisfied that the proposed residence is sufficiently suitable for the respondent to reside in," Justice Hill said.

She accepted the evidence of forensic psychiatrist Peter Wynn Owen that the complex didn't inherently pose any higher risk than Pindan's normal day-to-day life and any risks could be addressed by imposing restrictions.

"Mr Pindan needs stable accommodation and he has an opportunity to have that accommodation," Dr Wynn Owen told the hearing.

"I'm not sure that anywhere in the community will not potentially have people – women – who are vulnerable in it.

"I don't see that persons who are, for example, the victims of domestic violence as being more or less vulnerable [to Pindan].

"The victim selection has been about intoxicated and vulnerable through sleeping or unconsciousness."

The court order prevents the rapist from drinking or being in a car or private residence with any woman who hasn't been pre-approved by corrective services.

He will be tracked with a GPS bracelet but when the judgment was issued, authorities still needed to test whether it would be sensitive enough to spot him moving from his apartment to another in the same facility. 

Pindan must also fully disclose his offending to anyone who starts a friendship or relationship and give police and corrective services officers access to his devices if asked.