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Emily Woods

'Vile conduct': jogging trail rapist's appeal denied

County Court Judge Liz Gaynor labelled Joel Russo's offending as "a chamber of horrors". (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Few sexual offending cases are as grave as that of violent rapist Joel Russo, two judges have said as they threw out his sentence appeal.

The 30-year-old attempted to overturn his two-decade prison term for abducting a jogger on Merri Creek Trail, in Melbourne's inner-north, and raping her over two-and-a-half hours in December 2019.

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