A SICKENING baby rapist who violated a two-year-old boy has been told by the country's top judge that he can have no complaint about his potentially lifelong jail term.

Mark Johns, aged 23, formerly of Marlborough Street, admitted at the city's crown court in October last year to raping a child and was jailed indefinitely for public protection.

His legal team argued before the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, in London, that the sentence – which is almost identical to a life term – was excessive.

But the judge, sitting in the Appeal Court with Mr Justice Holman and Mr Justice Openshaw, described Johns' crime as "appalling" and dismissed his complaints.