The Court of Criminal Appeal has refused to reduce the jail sentence given to a masked rapist who violently attacked two teenage girls.
Paul Michael Radford was arrested 16 years after his crimes when DNA linked him with rapes he committed in 1994.
He bound and raped the first victim, a girl aged 14, at an Adelaide southern suburbs school and committed a violent attack against a girl, 15, at Bedford Park months later.
Each time, Radford covered his face with a stocking or balaclava.
He was sentenced to 16 years in jail with a non-parole period of 10 years.
Radford appealed that his sentence was excessive but the court unanimously dismissed the appeal.
It ruled the penalty was justifiably severe because the offending was violent and Radford had targeted vulnerable girls in isolated circumstances.