Gold Coast man Warren McCorriston has been extradited to New South Wales charged with a string of historic sexual and serious assault offences against three women in the Hunter region.
Mr McCorriston, 58, was arrested at the Q1 apartment building in Surfers Paradise on Wednesday afternoon at the request of detectives from Lake Macquarie in NSW.
He faces 22 charges, including six counts of sexual assault, maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm, attempting to choke or strangle and indecently assaulting a female aged under 16 years.
The offences allegedly occurred between December 1979 and July 1997.
During Mr McCorriston's extradition hearing, his lawyer Alex Somers said since graduating from TAFE in 1990, he had had a successful career in hospitality, including holding management positions.
He was most recently employed as the body corporate manager at Q1.
The allegations against Mr McCorriston were uncovered by Strike Force Arapaima, which was set up last year to re-examine the unsolved disappearances and suspected murders of two teenage girls in 1979 and a third in 1994.
While the sexual assault allegations against Mr McCorriston arose from the strike force investigation, detectives said they were unrelated to the three missing teenagers and no charges had been laid in respect to those cold cases.
Mr McCorriston did not apply for bail and is due to appear in Newcastle Local Court, north of Sydney, on March 4.
