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A man who snatched a young woman off the street and raped her close to four decades ago has been jailed for more than nine years.

Travis Scott Rielly, 58, dropped his head as Victorian County Court Judge Gerard Mullaly sentenced him on Tuesday for the aggravated rape of a 19-year-old woman.

Rielly admitted he and two other men abducted the woman off a St Kilda street, in Melbourne's inner south-east, during the early hours of January 23, 1988.

They shoved her into the back seat of a car, covered her mouth as she screamed for help and drove her to nearby Elwood Beach, where they took turns raping her.

After they finished, the men shoved her out of the vehicle and she ran to a friend's home nearby.

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