Victims of Crime Commissioner Greg Davies believes the case of serial rapist Adrian Bayley represents an appalling systemic failure over many years.
Bayley has been found guilty of raping three more women, including two just months before he murdered Jill Meagher.
This added to a long list of sexual assaults for which Bayley had received less than maximum prison sentences, followed by early release on parole, Mr Davies says.
"That bloke could have been in jail for 450 years for his first 20 rapes," Mr Davies also told Fairfax Radio on Thursday.
"How many chances does the system allow a person to have, and to fail at, in proving that they are not the horrendous Hannibal Lecter type that they have been painted as?"
Mr Davies said Bayley's early rapes were punished by just six months imprisonment per crime, when the maximum penalty was 25 years.
Bayley was a "predatory" offender who posed too much of a risk to ever be released, he said.
"When do we finally say enough is enough, you've just simply given up the right to walk around amongst the rest of us, and you are going to jail and you are going to die in there," Mr Davies said.
He also said the parole system had been reviewed, and improvements were made, after the murder of Ms Meagher.
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