Adrian Ernest Bayley appeals his life sentence for murder and rape of Melbourne woman Jill Meagher Jill Meagher's father, George McKeon, makes emotional statement after Adrian Bayley was sentenced to life for the murder of his daughter. Courtesy: Nine News JILL Meagher's killer Adrian Ernest Bayley has lodged an appeal against the length of his jail term. The Herald Sun has confirmed that Bayley lodged the appeal with the Supreme Court yesterday. Ms Meagher's family has been notified. In June, Justice Geoffrey Nettle condemned Bayley to life in prison with a 35-year minimum term for what he described as the "savage and degrading" rape and murder of Ms Meagher. The sentence added Bayley to a sordid list of criminals serving life sentences with long non-parole terms. Bayley raped and strangled Ms Meagher to death in a Brunswick laneway only 500m from her home. Adrian Bayley leaves the Supreme Court after being sentenced to life for the rape and murder of Jill Meagher. Her husband Tom was waiting for her to arrive home after a Friday night out with friends and ABC work colleagues. In sentencing Bayley, Justice Nettle said in part: "You were determined to have your way with her and so you overpowered her and raped her where she stood. Then you attacked her again because she was threatening to call the police, and in the process you strangled her. Bayley, out on parole at the time, had previously served 11 years" jail for rapes and sex-related assaults. "As your criminal record reveals, you are a recidivist violent sexual offender who has little compunction about sexual offending when the mood takes you, or about threatening and inflicting violence as part of the process," Justice Nettle told him. Jill Meagher's father George McKeon, mother Edith, husband Tom and brother Michael, right, after Adrian Bayley's sentencing. Picture: Mike Keating I see little reason now, and little has been suggested, to suppose you will ever be rehabilitated. At the time of his sentence, Bayley, 41, stood with a hardened face to hear Justice Nettle tell him he would serve the sentence. "Jill lived a life full of family, friends and her beloved (husband) Tom," Jill's father, George McKeon, said outside court after the sentence was handed down. Jill was brutally raped and murdered and is never coming back. Because of (the efforts of homicide detectives and prosecutors involved in the case) justice has now been done. Ms Meagher's family sat within 10m of her killer during the sentencing. Bayley could only stare at the floor. Edith McKeon and Tom Meagher after Adrian Bayley was sentenced to life. He joins a sordid list of criminals serving life terms with long non-parole periods. His sentence is equal to that of killer CBD gunman Christopher Hudson and now-dead gangland boss Carl Williams. Bayley's shocking past Why was he free to kill? Victim impact statements from the family Jill Meagher. Picture: HWT library He can be classed in the same bracket as mass killer Julian Knight, serial killer Paul Denyer, child killer Arthur Freeman and Carl Williams's killer Matt Johnson. And he can expect to do his time hard. "I bear in mind, as your counsel submitted, that prison will be extremely hard for you because of the need for you to be isolated and protected for your own safety," Justice Nettle said. Bayley told a psychologist that after coming across Ms Meagher in Sydney Rd last September he kissed her and tried to touch her bottom. She reacted by slapping him across the face, and he "lost it," Bayley said. "With that (you said) you pulled her towards you, pushed her on to the bonnet of a car . . . and raped her," Justice Nettle said. "You became outraged that she should dare repel your advances in that fashion," he said. You were determined to have your way with her and so you overpowered her and raped her where she stood. The judge said Bayley, who has fathered four children with two partners, had spent 11 years in jail for rapes and sex-related assaults. CCTV footage shows Jill Meagher approached by her killer Adrian Ernest Bayley on the night of the murder. In 1990, he raped a young woman in his bedroom while his first wife was pregnant, attacked a girl, 17, near a bus stop, and a 16-year-old hitchhiker. Jill's relatives tell of emotional wait Authorities warned about Jill killer Inside Bayley's police interview The judge said Bayley raped five prostitutes between September 2000 and March 2001. He was charged over those rapes while his second partner was pregnant. He was paroled on March 17, 2010, after serving his minimum term. Bayley saw an opportunity to rape Ms Meagher and "took it." And he killed her because he knew he would face a lengthy jail term if caught, the judge said. "I . . . infer . . . you strangled Gillian Meagher with intent to kill her either because she would otherwise have called the police or because of some form of perverted pleasure derived from taking her life," Justice Nettle said. Bayley's guilty plea entitled him to a "discount" of a minimum term, the judge said. " (Your crime) is particularly heinous and, in your case, it is made even worse by your attempt to conceal the body and . . . that the offending was committed while you were on parole and on bail," Justice Nettle said. Jill's life in pictures