Meagher killer was on parole for sex attacks Jill Meagher: Fought back against her rapist in an inner-city laneway. Jill Meagher was the victim of not just serial rapist Adrian Bayley but the most "catastrophic failure" of the justice system. Angry at being attacked and raped by Adrian Ernest Bayley in a laneway when walking home through Brunswick, an inner-city Melbourne suburb, after a night out, Jill Meagher fought back and told the powerfully-built sexual predator she was going to call the police on her mobile phone. She kicked out at Bayley but fell over and he strangled her. Crown prosecutor Gavin Silbert, SC, told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that Bayley, 41, was a calculating and manipulating man who derived pleasure from inflicting pain. It can also be revealed with the lifting of a suppression order that Bayley was on parole for a series of vicious sex attacks when he murdered Ms Meagher. Bayley pleaded guilty last year to assaulting a man in Geelong, but the Parole Board did not revoke his parole, leaving him free to murder Ms Meagher. Police Association secretary Greg Davies said the Bayley case represented the most catastrophic failure of the justice system he had seen in more than 35 years as a police officer. "This young woman spent the last moments of her life being raped in abject terror because someone thought they could rehabilitate a serial rapist," Senior Sergeant Davies said. As long as there is a discretion for people in authority to treat convicted rapists leniently, they will. The Victorian Parole Board released a statement saying it would not comment on individual cases, but that changes had been made to the system to ensure that anybody on parole charged with violent or sex offences would have their parole automatically cancelled. Premier Denis Napthine said the system had failed Ms Meagher. "I share the admiration we all feel for the enormously dignified way in which Jill Meagher's family have conducted themselves through this horror," he said. Prosecutor Gavin Silbert, SC, told the court Bayley killed Ms Meagher, 29, after raping her because he was a convicted rapist on parole and he knew he was likely to be jailed for 20 years if caught. Bayley believed he had no other option but to kill the ABC employee to silence her. Defence barrister Saul Holt, SC, said Bayley, who pleaded guilty to one count of murder and one count of rape, told Ms Meagher to calm down after he had raped her in the laneway on September 22 last year but she was not going to let him get away with it. The defence barrister said Bayley accepted he should be sentenced to life imprisonment but asked Justice Geoffrey Nettle not to throw away the key, as Mr Silbert had suggested. A psychologist, Professor James Ogloff, told the court that he had interviewed Bayley, who claimed to have been physically abused by his father from the time he was nine years old. Professor Ogloff said Bayley had also claimed he had been sexually abused by a female relative who was six years older than him from when he was aged nine to 15 years old. The sexual abuse began with inappropriate touching and led to sexual intercourse. Professor Ogloff was sceptical of Bayley's claims as it was the first time he had heard of it, but he checked and found that Bayley had raised the same sexual abuse claims with another psychologist. In Professor Ogloff's opinion, Bayley had ongoing feelings of guilt, remorse and self-loathing. In a police record of interview, Bayley claimed he never meant to hurt Ms Meagher. He said Ms Meagher looked distraught so he spoke to her and told her he would help her. "She flipped me off and that made me angry, because I was actually trying to do the right thing," Bayley told police. I'm going to jail for a long time. I just don't care, you know what I mean? I have no life left ... they should have the death penalty for people like me anyway."Bayley will be sentenced on June 19. with Richard Willingham