The Melbourne man who has pleaded guilty to murdering ABC employee Jill Meagher has a long history of violent attacks on women and has admitted faking his way through a sex offenders' program, a court has heard.
Adrian Ernest Bayley was also allowed to continue parole despite being convicted of assault.
Today, Bayley faced a pre-sentencing hearing in the Victorian Supreme Court, where his lawyers said he accepted he should be given a life sentence for the killing of Ms Meagher.
Justice Geoffrey Nettle also lifted a suppression order, allowing details of Bayley's history to be revealed.
The 41-year-old Coburg man has an extensive history of rape and violence.
The Victorian Parole Board failed to cancel his parole after a violent assault and a judge's warning that the public needed to be protected from him.
Bayley's history of violent attacks on women spans more than two decades, the court was told.
When he was 19, he raped two teenagers in separate attacks.
One was a 16-year-old family friend. He also attempted to rape a 16-year-old hitchhiker.
In June 1991 he was sentenced to his first stint behind bars.
He served just 22 months of a five-year sentence for sexual assault, later admitting he faked his way through a sex offenders' program to get early release.
In September 2000, he began what Judge Tony Duckett described as a horrendous wave of crimes against St Kilda sex workers, raping five prostitutes over a six-month period.
Bayley was jailed for a minimum of eight years for trapping his victims in his vehicle and repeatedly raping them.
