Matthew Leslie Tune fronted an extradition hearing in Melbourne Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, where Oxley detectives successfully applied to transport him back to Sydney.

The magistrate granted the extradition, ordering the 32-year-old into the custody of the detectives from Tamworth, who accompanied him on a flight back to Sydney yesterday afternoon.

He was met by police late yesterday at Sydney Airport, taken into custody at Mascot Police Station and ordered to appear in a Sydney court today to face charges stemming from the arrest warrant.

Tune’s arrest by Victorian detectives came after a nationwide appeal to catch 20 of the country’s most wanted was released last week.

Police allege Tune was armed with a hockey stick when he invaded a Baird Cr home in South Tamworth in March, 2012, and violently assaulted the occupant.

The resident was seriously injured.

It’s alleged Tune, who was awaiting trial in Tamworth District Court on offences stemming from the assault, fled NSW on Supreme Court bail and remained on the run until this week.

He has been wanted since failing to appear in court in April. Anonymous callers to Crime Stoppers tipped police off to Tune’s whereabouts before he was found in a halfway house on Flemington Rd, North Melbourne, on Monday.

Tune is one of four on the most wanted list who have been arrested across Australia since Operation Roam was mounted on September 8.