Dimitris Aspiotis, 39, will not be considered for parole until he is 91, which is believed to be the longest sentence given in a Greek court for rape.
Three of his British victims gave evidence against the cocaine-snorting thug in a trial in Igoumenitsa, on the Greek mainland.
The brutal knifepoint attacks took place in the space of just a month-and-a-half, after he was released halfway through a six-year sentence for sex attacks on other British tourists.
Following his repeat offence in August 2010, he appeared in a magistrates court on the holiday island and was ordered to return to a mainland prison.
He was also charged with violating the terms of his release while on a suspended sentence for rape and robbery of British women since 1997, when he was 25 years old.
Aspiotis would trap the women on a woodland path after partying with them on the beach and repeatedly rape them for hours.
A holiday rep from Preston, Lancashire, wept as she described her ordeal in court.
'He would talk to me politely, calmly, and then rape me,' she said. 'Within that time he raped me a total of six times.
'He would ask, "Is it good? Say yes".
'I feared he was going to kill me to get rid of the evidence.'
Instead, Aspiotis showed her back to her hotel before taking her money and a phone, The Sun reported.
A 45-year-old British holiday rep was also raped by Aspiotis in the woods for hours.
The woman, from London, said: 'He
was forceful and very threatening, sexually totally aggressive.
'Then he would be polite and almost
friendly.'
Again, Aspiotis took her money and
phone then let her go. His third victim was on her first lone holiday abroad as
an 18th birthday gift from her parents.
Greek police believe Aspiotis
attacked even more British tourists.
The Beast, who admitted rape,
robbery and assault, begged for leniency, saying he was 'ugly' and that
'forcing myself on them was the only way I could secure physical contact with
women.'
Earlier, his brother yelled from the
court corridor: 'Give me a gun and I’ll shoot him myself.'
Greece yesterday sent out a message
that it was determined to protect its valued women tourists.
When homeless Aspiotis failed to turn up with a lawyer, one was appointed by the state by ballot so the trial could take place. All the female lawyers refused to participate in the ballot.
According to Foreign Office
statistics, Greece has the highest number of British rape victims in the world.
This is believed to be due to the
excessive drinking of young holiday makers and the fact that the country still
has vast stretches of isolated beaches.
There was a scandal at the time,
when it emerged that detectives had identified him as their prime suspect
immediately after the rape on 12 July 2010 - but waited until he had raped four
women before calling the British Consulate to help hunt him down.
Police forced his surrender by
cutting off all his access to food, to his family and to possible friends.
Aspiotis was unemployed and lived in poverty in a 'hovel, hardly a home', with his parents, his brother and sister.
He had never married and told
magistrate Apostolos Hajipantazis at the time: 'My family and I live like
animals.
'We have no real home, and I myself
have been rejected by society because of my past. I have no work and no hope of
making a proper living. I know that no woman will accept me.
'So rape and robbery was the only
solution left to me to satisfy my basic needs.'
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