An Iraqi refugee jailed indefinitely for raping three women and attempting to rape a fourth has lost his appeal against his latest conviction and sentence.
Akeel Hassan Abbas Al Baiiaty, 35, was convicted in March by a Wellington District Court jury of raping, assaulting and abducting a 20-year-old woman ata Porirua hostel he was staying at.
At the time of the February attack, Al Baiiaty was on parole after being freed two months earlier from Rimutaka Prison following a nine-year sentence for the knifepoint rapes of two Auckland prostitutes and assaulting a third with intent to rape her in late 1997.
He was sentenced to preventive detention with a minimum non-parole period of seven years for the rape conviction, as well as concurrent sentences of four years' jail for abduction and two years' for assault.
