Adrian Justin Waa, 36, was jailed for eight years and four months after a jury found him guilty of three sex charges and a burglary in 2021.
In a recent ruling, the Parole Board noted the inmate had completed a drug treatment programme as well as graduating from a course for violent offenders.
Waa had also done nine sessions with a psychologist to address his sex crimes.
The board heard Waa was now in the "reintegrative phase" of his sentence, preparing for release.
But while at Invercargill Prison he had been rejected from the release to work programme, something his current principal Corrections officer at the Otago Corrections Facility put down to his "reputation".
The staff member said Waa was "a very different person" to who he was in the past.
Panel convener Neville Trendle issued a please-explain regarding the rejection, saying reintegration was vital to reduce the prisoner’s risk.
On September 22, 2019, Waa turned up at his victim’s home knowing her boyfriend was in prison.
The victim told the jury she had been woken early in the morning by banging on her front door.
Waa, who had only met her briefly in the past, told her he would not leave until she let him in.
The woman sought refuge in her bedroom, but he forced his way in and violated her despite her repeated pleas for him to stop.
He told her he would come back and continue the abuse "every single day", she said.
The victim was only able to flee the address later that morning when Waa fell asleep in her bed.
The inmate previously told the Parole Board his family came before his King Cobras membership and this month he requested release to an address north of Dunedin.
"It is the board’s view that when he is released from prison there will need to be a significant distance between his residence and the wider area in which his victim lives," Mr Trendle said.
He described Waa’s crimes as "very concerning violent sexual offending".
His handwritten safety plan was also deemed inadequate.
"Mr Waa will need the opportunity to consolidate and demonstrate the gains he made in treatment. Until that work is completed and the other matters we have referred to have been resolved, we could not be satisfied that his release would not pose an undue risk to the safety of the community," Mr Trendle said.
Waa will next see the board in October.
His sentence expires in June 2028.
— Rob Kidd, Court reporter
