Sadistic sexual predator Adam Robert Hall appeals the severity of his sentence
A Hunter Valley man who raped a woman in a “sustained, brutal and terrifying attack” for over 12 hours at MacMasters Beach has appealed his sentence.
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A Hunter Valley man who was jailed for 22 years with a non-parole period of 16 years and six months for the brutal rape and torture of a woman has appealed the severity of his sentence.
Adam Robert Hall, of Woodberry near Maitland, was jailed in April last year after pleading guilty to nine counts of aggravated kidnapping with intent obtain advantage, aggravated sexual intercourse and sexual intercourse without consent.
The then 50-year-old also pleaded guilty to a further seven counts of sexual intercourse, which were considered at the time of his sentencing.
Hall appealed the severity of his sentence in the Court of Criminal Appeal with his defence arguing the sentencing judge did not take into account all aspects of “totality” and that the court must avoid imposing a “crushing sentence”.
The court heard that on February 10, 2019, Hall “snapped”, tying the woman’s hands behind her back and punched her multiple times.
The court heard a chilling audio recording, later retrieved from the victim’s phone, demonstrated “an attitude of power, dominance, belittlement and callousness the applicant held for his victim”.
Hall got a knife and cut the woman’s leg before threatening to kill her and raping her repeatedly until he fell asleep about 4.30am the next day.
At one point during the ordeal he pushed her down a flight of stairs and later dragged her into the garage and got a pair of pliers and a hammer.
He told her if she did not comply with his specific demands he would pull her teeth with the pliers or break her toes with the hammer.
About 2.30am he hogtied and gagged the woman and put her in the back seat under a blanket while he drove to the 7-Eleven at Kincumber to buy cigarettes.
When he woke to find her missing, Hall fled on his motorcycle and spent the day drinking whiskey and smoking cigarettes in some bushland.
On February 12, Hall called triple-0 from a pay phone near the Caltex service station at Wamberal and told the operator he wanted to hand himself in.
Justices Mark Leeming, Robert Allan Hulme and Stephen Campbell dismissed Hall’s appeal last month.
“The sentence imposed upon the applicant was certainly a stern one, but the offending viewed overall was extremely grave,” Justice Hulme said.
“The offending had at its core the intentional infliction of fear, pain, physical injury and sexual violence designed to frighten, harm, degrade and humiliate the victim and to exercise control and domination over her.
“Bearing in mind the principles set out earlier I am not persuaded that the sentence was unreasonable or plainly unjust.”
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