Convicted rapist Heath Lance Chatters has appealed his conviction and sentence from last month.
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Chatters, 42, was sentenced to 10 years’ jail for robbery, abduction and rape.
Chatters in 2015 had walked into a Devonport service station, brandishing a knife and demanding cash from a female attendee.
He then demanded she get into his car, and he drove her to the caravan park.
Once inside a cabin, he told her to remove her clothes before he dragged her by the hair to the bedroom and raped her.
In Hobart Supreme Court on Wednesday, Chatters said he had not been able to withdraw his guilty plea during the trial.
He said since the trial, he had received additional evidence, could prove that witnesses had been interfered with, and would be able to call new witnesses.
Chatters said the Crown had neglected to make available to him CCTV footage of the service station incident and the victim’s phone records.
Chief Justice Alan Blow adjourned the matter to December 19.