The young woman was on her back in long grass and asked the man if she could go home.

"Just one more hour," the stranger in the grey hooded jumper replied.

Alan Simmons was found guilty of raping a woman in Bathurst in 2015. Credit:Western Advocate

The woman cried. She had already been held captive by Alan Simmons for almost an hour, repeatedly raped, beaten and taunted near the banks of the Macquarie River in Bathurst, in central western NSW.

The woman had stayed late at work that afternoon in August 2015 to help her boss through a busy Saturday shift and walked home carrying a box of chocolates given to her in thanks.