Rapist Tom Silvagni has lodged an appeal against his convictions, less than a month after he was jailed for sexually assaulting a woman.

The son of AFL great Stephen Silvagni was in December found guilty of two charges of rape following a trial in the Victorian County Court.

Silvagni had denied he digitally raped the woman – known under the pseudonym Samantha Taylor – at his Melbourne home early on January 14, 2024.

Taylor, who had a brief relationship with Silvagni’s friend Anthony LoGiudice, had been invited to join them all at the house by Silvagni’s girlfriend Alannah laconis.

The four of them chatted for some time before heading separately to bed. Taylor had consensual sex with LoGiudice.

He then had to leave, so he organised an Uber and left the property shortly before 2am.

Silvagni then went to Taylor’s room and lied, telling her LoGiudice would be back upstairs soon because his Uber had been cancelled.

But Silvagni went into the dark bedroom a short time later and pretended to be LoGiudice as he digitally raped the young woman twice, the court was told.

In the days that followed, Silvagni fabricated an Uber receipt to make it look like LoGiudice had left his home after 2.30am.

Silvagni admitted forging the receipt but said he did so because he panicked after being falsely accused of rape.

However, a County Court jury rejected his story, finding him guilty on December 5 of two counts of rape.

On December 17, he was jailed for six years and two months, with Judge Gregory Lyon describing the offending as egregious and callous.

The 23-year-old will be eligible for parole after three years and three months.

Silvagni’s parents made a statement to the media after he was convicted, stating their son maintained his innocence and would clear his name.

Lawyers for Silvagni have since filed an appeal against his two rape convictions, the Victorian Court of Appeal confirmed on Wednesday.

The grounds of the appeal are yet to be released to the media.

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–AAP