By Australian Associated Press
Published: 01:53 GMT, 12 March 2019 | Updated: 02:23 GMT, 12 March 2019
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A Melbourne schoolgirl killer has had time cut from his minimum prison term on appeal after judges ruled he'd been double sentenced for a later rape.
Sean Christian Price still won't be eligible for parole for another 37 years, but it's one year less than he originally received for the rape of a woman in a bookshop and murder of Doncaster teen Masa Vukotic earlier the same day.
Price made a bid to the Court of Appeal in January to have his life sentence for both 2015 crimes reduced, but that was rejected.
Sean Christian Price still won't be eligible for parole for another 37 years, but it's one year less than he originally received for the rape of a woman in a bookshop and murder of Doncaster teen Masa Vukotic earlier the same day
Instead, justices Simon Whelan, Stephen McLeish and Terry Forrest considered that by being sentenced in 2017 for breaching a 10-year supervision order by committing the rape he had been double punished.
The order was put in place when Price, then 19, carried out a series of sexual assaults in suburban Melbourne in
