Recidivist rapist and serial predator Colin Jack Mitchell, who was jailed indefinitely for two brutal and sexually motivated attacks on women in Auckland 25 years apart, will appeal his convictions.
On May 18 Mitchell, 60, was sentenced to preventive detention for the offending which means he can only be released if the Parole Board deems he is no longer a risk to the public.
In March, on the day Mitchell turned 60, a jury found him guilty of abducting a young woman from Ponsonby then wounding and assaulting her at a quarry in Riverhead, West Auckland.
After the same trial Mitchell was found guilty of the historic unsolved rape of a West Auckland mum in 1992.
