KEY POINTS:
Sex attacker Nicholas Reekie is suing a group of prison officers and a doctor for allegedly assaulting him while he was being forced to give a blood sample.
Reekie was in prison on an aggravated burglary charge when a court ordered him to provide a DNA sample on May 15, 2001.
He did not consent to the sample being taken and is making a civil claim against the Corrections Department, alleging seven prison officers and a doctor assaulted him by taking the sample. He is seeking $225,000 in compensation.
According to Reekie's statement of claim, the prison officers "deprived him of his liberty" and attempted to inflict a "blackout" by applying pressure to an artery in his neck.
The claims are denied.
The sample at the centre of Reekie's claim sparked controversy when a computer failure meant his DNA was unable to be matched to the unsolved rape of an 11-year-old girl in 1992.
Within 18 days of his release from jail, Reekie repeatedly raped a 69-year-old woman. A month later he raped a 23-year-old woman. He was arrested in September 2002 for the attack on the 11-year-old girl and sentenced to preventive detention in 2003.
The case has been adjourned.
