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Rapist jailed for 'extremely frightening' hotel attack

Joel Fitzpatrick Burtt will spend at least five-and-a-half years behind bars for raping a woman. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

A man has been jailed for violently raping a woman in a luxury hotel after trying to discredit her as an attention-seeker and telling her she was "getting what she deserved".

A judge did not believe Joel Nathan Fitzpatrick Burtt was genuinely remorseful despite his lawyer submitting the man was distressed while the woman recounted what happened to her in her evidence at his trial.

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