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Simone Reed Freed on Home Detention Curfew for Christmas After Petrol-Bomb Case

Her release follows Home Detention Curfew rules, with pre-sentence tagging counting toward eligibility.

Overview

  • Reed, 37, left custody on an electronically monitored curfew after being sentenced in October to 32 months for encouraging or assisting arson with recklessness as to whether life would be endangered.
  • Tabloid reports say she served about 11 weeks and published photos showed her Christmas shopping with B&M bags as she posted, "Merry Christmas – back home with my babies."
  • Court findings stated she drove to buy petrol, paid for items and issued a threat to petrol-bomb the bar before Carl Wild threw a Molotov cocktail that set reveller David Brotton alight.
  • Wild was jailed for 13 and a half years after CCTV showed the firebomb attack and further violence inside the venue, including bleach being used on terrified patrons.
  • The Ministry of Justice said HDC releases carry strict licence conditions with electronic tagging and that breaches can result in recall to prison.