ACT government ads featuring a man who raped and ripped off sex workers have been removed almost seven months after his criminal activity was first made public.
Kristian James Mynott, 42, was sentenced in the ACT Supreme Court on Monday for two counts of sexual intercourse without consent.
Mynott pleaded guilty to the charges in March 2020, just 12 days before he was set to go to trial.
The Canberra Times reported in January, Mynott pleaded guilty to six counts of obtaining financial advantage by deception and was sentenced to an intensive correction order.
Mynott, who now co-owns a cleaning business in Canberra, was once a part-time actor whose credits included an appearance in the ABC political drama Total Control.
He has also featured in several Transport Canberra advertisements on Canberra buses.
Transport Canberra says it first heard of Mynott's criminal past on Monday, after TheCanberra Times reported he had pleaded guilty to rape charges and been sentenced to at least 16 months behind bars.
"After seeing the media coverage, Transport Canberra requested that MyWay recharge agents remove the poster featuring Mr Mynott's image," an ACT government spokesman said.
"Transport Canberra is also reviewing its other communication products to make sure the image does not appear elsewhere. The image from the bus back is no longer in place."
The spokesman said the issue would be taken to the advertising agency that provided the model.
The court on Monday heard Mynott, who stole customers' credit card details while he worked at a Fyshwick business in 2017, used the details to con one NSW-based escort around June that year.
Mynott offered an escort $1500 and paid for his flight to the national capital in the company of another sex worker.
On the way to the airport the following morning, Mynott told the NSW-based escort he'd stop at an ATM and get cash to pay him for the sex they'd had the night before, but never came back to the car.
In a statement read to the court, the escort said he was upset by the realisation he wouldn't get paid. He said he couldn't afford rent or food because of the betrayal, and eventually left sex work because he'd been raped by Mynott. The escort's consent to sex was negated when Mynott didn't pay him.
The court also heard that in 2017, Mynott promised a Victorian-based man flights to Canberra and $2000 cash for sex. Instead of paying him after the fact, Mynott left him stranded in a hotel under the pretence he'd be "back in 10 minutes".
On Monday, Chief Justice Murrell sentenced Mynott to a total three years and four months' jail, with his 16-month non-parole period set to expire on December 23, 2021.
