Overview
- Parole Administrative Review Commissioner Michael David KC scheduled a closed hearing for December 5 to consider whether the parole board’s August release decision should stand.
- He ruled the proceedings will exclude the media and said the hearing will run as long as needed.
- Strict suppression orders continue to prohibit publishing Vlassakis’s identification or images, and the commissioner will later decide what material and reasons from the hearing can be released.
- Attorney-General Kyam Maher argues the board erred by not giving proper weight to community safety, the likelihood of compliance, the gravity of the offences, and the reports before it.
- The parole board previously concluded Vlassakis was not a risk and proposed up to 12 months of resocialisation at Adelaide’s pre-release centre, as victims’ representatives and police attended the directions hearing where media access was refused.