A VIOLENT rapist whose 14-year-old victim took her own life after the attack has asked to remove his electronic ankle bracelet because it’s embarrassing and has hurt his confidence.

Darren Michael Costello, 43, says wearing the monitor makes him feel “uncomfortable, paranoid, uneasy and anxious ... with everyone knowing my personal business”.

“I feel the monitoring device is an obstacle and barrier in my way from (sic) being able to try and live a normal life and engage with people.

“I am very uncomfortable by (sic) the noise it creates and am paranoid that everybody knows that I have a monitoring device.”

The bracelet alerts corrective services staff to his movements.

Costello applied to the Queensland Supreme Court on December 19 for the right to take the device off, saying he doesn’t want people “asking questions” when his monitor beeps.

He served a 13-year jail sentence for raping the young schoolgirl in November 1995 while he was on parole for attempting to rob a nine-month pregnant woman with a baseball bat.

He stalked the girl as she left a skating rink in the southwestern Brisbane suburb of Inala, attacking her as she took a shortcut beside a creek.

The girl hanged herself a year after the attack, just days before Costello was due in court where he pleaded guilty.

Since his release four years ago he has been watched carefully by a parole officer.

In 2012 he received three “contravention notices” after he either took his monitor off, or was late reporting to authorities.

Costello has been living with his mother in Inala, his brother in Goodna and with his sister Lynette Davis at Deception Bay since he was released in 2010.

He has been offered three jobs if he can get his monitor taken off.

Rodney Hall from Joe Fraser Fibreglassing offered Costello a job, but said the monitor was “not exactly the image a company looks for”.

The case will return to court to be heard on February 3.