A violent rapist who was recently released from a 12-year sentence for bashing and raping two foreign backpackers in West Australia's far north is back behind bars in the Northern Territory.

Key points: David Gundari was on the run for a week after he failed to appear in court in WA

David Gundari was on the run for a week after he failed to appear in court in WA He was released from a 12-year sentence in 2018, and placed on a supervision order

He was released from a 12-year sentence in 2018, and placed on a supervision order Gundari was rearrested in Katherine East in October for going armed in public, damage to property and riotous behaviour in a public place

In September, David Gundari failed to attend a hearing at Wyndham Magistrate's Court in WA's Kimberley region over driving and bail breach charges, and fled across the border into the NT.

Gundari, who the WA Prisoners Review Board found to be at "medium to high … risk of reoffending in a sexual manner" after his 2018 release, was on the run for more than a week before the NT public was notified by police.

He was arrested in the outback town of Katherine on October 8 and charged with engaging in violent conduct in Katherine East on September 29 and one count of breaching bail.

Gundari was on Monday found guilty of both charges and jailed for two months and one week.

Two further counts of aggravated assault were withdrawn.

Gundari was arrested in the Territory town of Katherine on October 8. ( ABC News: Mitchell Woolnough )

Last month, Gundari was also sentenced over outstanding charges from 2004; for being armed with a steel bar in the community of Bulla and causing criminal damage to his victim's car.

He was sentenced to three months in jail for these earlier charges.

In 2007, Gundari pleaded guilty to the September 2006 brutal beating and rape of a 24-year-old French woman and a 32-year-old Japanese woman in the former pearling town of Broome and he was jailed until 2018.

Gundari 'harbours attitudes which normalises violence'

The WA Prisoners Review Board factored the violence of his offending into its decision handed down in July last year that Gundari should be "subject to a post-sentence supervision order".

"As a result of the assault the [first] victim sustained two lacerations to the top of her head and her two front teeth were knocked from her mouth," the decision read.

The second victim, the Japanese woman, suffered a "fracture to her eye socket, cheekbone and jaw, requiring surgery and ongoing medical treatment".

Prior to his release from prison in 2018, the WA prison's board found Gundari "lacked insight into [his] offending behaviour and appears to harbour attitudes which normalise violence".

"The board is of the opinion that a period of community supervision will enable further work to be undertaken by Corrective Services to address your outstanding treatment needs and reduce the risk of you committing a serious violent offence and the risk that poses to the safety of the community," the decision read.

Gundari is yet to be sentenced on driving charges and breaching his post-sentence supervision order in WA.