A serial rapist who kidnapped and sexually assaulted three women in Brooklyn has had his jail term cut by two years.
Dennis Newall, 57, had built a “raping machine” inside a bus he was living in at a tyre business.
In February, he was sentenced by the County Court to 13 years’ jail with a non-parole period of 11-and-a half-years after pleading guilty to the kidnapping and rape of two sex workers between November and December, 2001.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday reduced his sentence to 11 years with a minimum of nine.
He had previously been jailed in 2002 for eight years for kidnapping and raping another sex worker on November 30, 2001.
He had raped the first woman less than two years after being released from jail in Western Australia for other sexual offences.
Court of Appeal Justices Phillip Priest and David Beach said last Wednesday Newall’s offending against the three women at Brooklyn was “vile” and his risk of reoffending was high.
“It was wicked, depraved, cunning and planned, and calculated to provoke great fear and grave humiliation.”
The judges said that if Newall had been sentenced in 2002 for raping all three victims, he would never have received a 21-year sentence with a minimum of 17 years and six months.
They said his jail term had to be reduced.
