Victorian man charged over 1998 rapes

On both occasions, the female complainants were hitch-hiking in Melbourne's outer eastern suburbs when they were picked up by a man and sexually assaulted.

Late on Wednesday, police charged a man with rape, abduction of a child under 16, false imprisonment, making threats to kill, procuring sexual penetration of a child under 16, sexual penetration and indecent act with a child under 16, stalking and firearms offences.

He will face the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday.