RAPISTS OF LYNETTE DALEY;THEIR LONG CRIMINAL HISTORIES TELL VERY VIOLENT PASTS

PHOTO The mugshots of Paul Maris (left) and Adrian Attwater, who are currently in custody.

Two men found guilty of the rape of Lynette Daley, whose bloodied body was found on a remote beach, have long criminal histories featuring multiple police assaults, court documents have revealed.

Ms Daley, 33, bled to death on an Australia Day camping trip at Iluka in 2011 after violent sexual intercourse with Adrian Attwater, 42, and Paul Maris, 47.

A fortnight ago a NSW Supreme Court jury took just half an hour to find Attwater guilty of manslaughter, Maris guilty of burning a blood-soaked mattress to hide evidence, and both men guilty of aggravated sexual assault.

Today Justice Elizabeth Fullerton released the NSW criminal histories of both men ahead of sentencing proceedings in November.

Assaulting police just one of the crimes

The documents list a range of crimes going back to when Attwater was a child and Maris was a teenager.

Maris' violent history consists of:

Six serious assault charges between 1995 and 2005, including two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

TWO COUNTS OF ASSAULT

Two counts of assaulting police

In 2005, he was ordered to enter full-time residential rehabilitation, commence drug and alcohol counselling, and participate in an anger management course.

In 2015, he was sentenced to 12 months in jail for going armed with intent to commit an indictable offence and destroying property.

Other convictions between 1988 and 2010 include malicious injury, possessing prohibited drugs, administering prohibited drugs, and multiple counts of drink driving.

Attwater's criminal history includes:

Two serious convictions for assaulting police in 1994 and 2010 - he was sentenced to nine months in jail for the second offence.

Between 1989 and 2008 multiple counts of drink driving as well as speeding, driving while disqualified, driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle, stealing, and cultivating prohibited plants.DPP still working on 'urgent brief'

LYNETTE DALEY'S DEATH

In 2016, a report by the ABC's flagship current affairs program Four Corners put Lynette Daley's case in the spotlight — so what exactly happened on the beach?

Attwater and Maris are currently in custody awaiting sentencing for their roles in the death of Lynette Daley six-and-a-half years ago.

Despite a thorough police investigation in 2011 and coronial findings in 2014 which strongly recommended charged be laid, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) did not prosecute the men.

An ABC Four Corners program about the case in 2016 sparked public outrage, so director Lloyd Babb SC called in independent counsel, Philip Strickland SC, who ended up bringing the matter to trial for the DPP.

The jury's swift conviction this month prompted the NSW Attorney-General to demand the DPP to explain their actions the following morning

Mark Speakman said he had spoken to Mr Babb and sought an "urgent brief on the circumstances surrounding this case".

As of Tuesday afternoon Mr Speakman told the ABC that he had received the brief and asked for further information.

The DPP said it would not comment.