A Cairns man who raped and kidnapped a British backpacker on a road trip through the Queensland bush has been jailed for 10 years.
Marcus Allyn Keith Martin, 24, was sentenced in the Cairns District Court on Tuesday, having previously pleaded guilty to rape and deprivation of liberty.
The bruised and battered Liverpool woman was rescued by police on an outback highway near Mitchell, about 600km west of Brisbane, after driving off from a petrol station without paying for fuel.
Caltex Mitchell manager Beverley Page told reporters at the time it was clear the woman, crying and shaking, was in a bad way when she explained she couldn't pay for fuel because her ex-boyfriend had her wallet.
Officers pulled their 4WD over on the Warrego Highway and found the man hiding in the back of the vehicle.
It had been alleged the man first met the British backpacker in Cairns and became involved in a brief relationship with her.
When it soured, he subjected her to weeks of physical abuse, and forced her to drive him down the Queensland coast and towards Charleville in outback Queensland.
Martin received a head sentence of 10 years for the various penalties that are being served concurrently.
