SERIAL rapist Robert Fardon is heading back to jail after his bid for freedom was short-lived.
Corrective Services says Fardon is likely to be back behind bars in Brisbane sometime on Friday night after the department received a warrant for his arrest.
Queensland's Court of Appeal ordered the warrant to be issued just two hours after the notorious sex offender was released from his cell.
"We expect him to be back there at some stage tonight, we're just not sure when," a Corrective Services spokesman told AAP on Friday.
Fardon was freed at 4pm (AEST) on Friday after Supreme Court judge Peter Lyons refused an application to delay his release.
But Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie went to the Court of Appeal to keep Fardon locked up.
Before the matter was heard, Mr Bleijie told the media he would do everything in his power to keep Fardon in prison.
"The fight is not over," Mr Bleijie told reporters.
"I simply will exhaust all legal opportunities and avenues available to me as attorney-general."
As Mr Bleijie was addressing the media, Corrective Services said Fardon had been released into the emergency accommodation area of Wacol prison.
Two hours later, at 6pm, the Court of Appeal adjourned the hearing to Wednesday and ordered Fardon be kept in custody until then.
Justice Phillip Morrison ordered a warrant to be issued for Fardon's arrest.
Mr Bleijie is seeking a stay on Justice Lyon's order, so Fardon is kept in jail while an appeal against the decision to free the sex offender is heard.
Any appeal wouldn't be heard for two to three weeks, the court heard.
Justice Morrison said as it appeared there were reasonable grounds for the appeal, an interim stay on Justice Lyons' release order was required.
Justice Lyons said lawyers for the attorney-general had failed to convince him that his earlier decision to release Fardon from indefinite detention was wrong.
If Mr Bleijie fails in his bid to keep Fardon jailed until an appeal is heard, the serial rapist will be released at 4pm Wednesday when the interim stay on the order expires.
Fardon has spent most of his adult life in prison.
He has been convicted of sex offences against women and girls dating back to 1967, when he was 18.
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