Heath Lance Chatter's appeal against his 2017 conviction for rape, on the grounds it was manifestly excessive, was dismissed by a full bench of the Hobart Supreme Court on Friday.
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Chatters had made several attempts to appeal his conviction and 10-year sentence, with a non-parole period of six years, for aggravated armed robbery, deprivation of liberty, and rape of a Devonport service station attendant in 2014.
He robbed the woman at knifepoint and ordered her into his car after which he took her to a caravan park and brutally raped her.
During the three-hour ordeal, Mr Chatters threatened to kill the woman and members of her family.
Defence lawyer Michael Flanagan said the head sentence applied to Chatters' offending was well above the maximum head sentence for a count of rape in Tasmania over the past 29 years.
He referred to the recent case involving a rape of an elderly woman in Launceston by Christo Brown which attracted an eight-year sentence.
Mr Flanagan acknowledged sentences for serious sexual assaults had increased in recent times in accordance with a shift in community attitudes towards the crime.
But he said Chatters' sentence represented a dramatic increase rather than an incremental one.
Mr Flanagan said there was no violence or indignity inflicted upon the victim other than that inherent in the act of rape.
Director of Public Prosecutions Daryl Coates said it was not simply a case of comparing a rape incident with another.
He said the court needed to acknowledge the robbery and abduction when it considered his sentence.
Mr Coates said violence was used during the rape and the ordeal only ended with police intervention.
He said the victim suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and was unable to return to work.
Mr Coates said the victim's relationships with her husband, children and mother had each suffered because of the crime.
He said the complainant had not been spared from giving evidence during the trial's lengthy proceedings.
"No weight should be tied to the fact he pleaded guilty," Mr Coates said.
He said Chatters had significant prior convictions for assault and robbery.
Mr Coates said a psychiatric report identified he had an anti-social disorder with strong psychopathic tendencies.
