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Jill Meagher killer's prison sentence cut by three years

The man who raped and killed Jill Meagher has had his prison term cut by three years after a sepa...
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11.33 13 Jul 2016


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Jill Meagher killer's prison sentence cut by three years

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11.33 13 Jul 2016


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The man who raped and killed Jill Meagher has had his prison term cut by three years after a separate conviction was overturned.

Adrian Bayley was prevented from seeking parole for at least 35 years when he was handed a life sentence for the 2012 murder of the Irish woman.

He was convicted of three other rapes following that decision, adding 18 years to his sentence and increasing his non-parole period to 43 years.

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Bayley subsequently appealed two of those three convictions, one of which has now been quashed, ABC Melbourne reports.

The Victorian Court of Appeal overturned his conviction for the rape of a sex worker in 2000, reducing his non-parole sentence to 40 years.

His appeal against a second conviction for a 2012 rape was dismissed.

Jill Meagher, from Louth, disappeared in the early hours of September 22nd, 2012, as she walked home from a bar close to her Melbourne home.

The former ABC employee, who moved to Australia in 2009, was found in a shallow grave outside the city a week later. 


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