A serial rapist who violently attacked a young woman as she walked home from work in Newcastle in 1995 has been jailed for a decade but will be eligible for parole next year.
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00:00This case began back in 1995 in Newcastle, here in New South Wales, when a woman was
00:07walking home from work late at night and she was grabbed by a man she didn't know.
00:11He dragged her into a laneway and violently sexually assaulted her.
00:15He also verbally threatened her during that assault.
00:18She was only able to escape by hitting him in the face and running away.
00:21And at the time she reported that to police, but the case went cold for almost two decades.
00:26They were unable to find the man who did it.
00:29And it wasn't until almost two decades later that advancements in forensics allowed them
00:34to then link the DNA from that case to a man who was already in custody in Victoria.
00:40His name was Peter Brattick.
00:42So he has faced sentencing today and he was already in custody, as I said, in Victoria
00:47for sexual assault in Victoria.
00:49He also had previously served time for a sexual assault in Queensland.
00:53He was extradited here to New South Wales quite a few years ago to face trial for these charges.
01:00But because his sentence already began back in 2018, there were so many lengthy delays
01:05in the case.
01:06He pleaded guilty earlier this year and today was sentenced to a non-parole period of seven years.
01:11But because he's already spent more than six years in jail, he will be eligible for parole
01:15in March next year.