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Serial attacker Antoni Imiela has been denied leave to appeal against his 2012 conviction for a rape he committed in 1987. Serial rapist Antoni Imiela has been denied leave to appeal against his 2012 conviction for a rape attack on Christmas Day 1987.
Imiela, dubbed the M25 rapist, was jailed in 2004 for seven rapes between 2001 and 2002. Imiela, later dubbed the M25 rapist in the news media, was jailed in 2004 for seven rapes carried out between 2001 and 2002.
In 2012 he was jailed for 12 years for raping a woman aged 29 in Forest Hill, south-east London. In 2012 he was jailed for 12 years for raping a 29-year-old woman in Forest Hill, south-east London.
Detectives were able to charge him 23 years later, through improved DNA techniques. Detectives were able to charge him 23 years later using improved DNA testing.
Imiela, at the time a railway worker living near Ashford in Kent, attacked the woman on Christmas Day close to her home in Forest Hill, the Old Bailey heard during the trial.
He grabbed the mother-of-two as she walked home from a pub and threatened to kill her before repeatedly punching her.
At the Court of Appeal an application to challenge the conviction on the basis that the jury had been wrongly informed of previous rape convictions was rejected.
The Old Bailey judge's decision "cannot be faulted" said the Appeal Court judges who concluded that evidence of his previous convictions "was properly admitted".