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Bravery award winner and convicted sex offender Michael Patrick Williams is back behind bars after his bid to appeal his conviction was dismissed.
The
Sea Rogue survivor was last year found guilty by a judge-alone trial on two counts of sexual intercourse without consent over the assault which took place at a Yamba house party in 2018.
Williams, who was a deckhand on the trawler which sank off Byron Bay in 2008, had made headlines when he survived a 12-hour swim to shore. He was awarded a bravery medal from Governor-General Quentin Bryce as well as a Royal Humane Society of NSW Bronze Medal.