The man who brutally murdered Melbourne schoolgirl Masa Vukotic on a walking track near her home four years ago wants a reduction in his sentence.

Sean Christian Price is currently serving a 41 year prison sentence over the slaying of the 17-year-old in Doncaster in March 2015 and the rape of a woman in a Christian bookshop four days later.

But Price, 34, https://softaya.com/ is set to appeal against the length of his sentence in the Court of Appeal in Melbourne on Thursday.