The NSW forensic mental health system does not have the ability to monitor the most dangerous criminal patients

The man abducted and sexually attacked two women at the Sydney knife in the late 80s. He was released less than a decade later and began a series of armed robberies and other offenses.

He became a forensic patient in the early 2000s and escaped the Long Bay hospital. Two years later, in 2008, the court approved the rapist in series for conditional release.

The following month, the man entered the bedroom of a child, forced him to take him to their mother, then tied and sexually attacked the woman in her bed.

He was incarcerated by the end of 2021, when he was transferred to the Long Bay Legal Hospital.

While a patient, the man targeted and harassed the female staff. But his treatment team applied for escorted day leave and leave not executed overnight in 2023.

It was during a holiday session overnight, in May 2024, the rapist watched “a few hours of fighting movies”, say the judicial documents.

Later he made observations about rape pornography and circumventing rules. Despite this fact, his supervisors said the leave “went well”.

Last year, the state of NSW told the courts that the man was “an unacceptable risk” if it is released and must be subject to an ESO, so that the corrective services can use their resources to monitor it.

“Nothing from the evidence of the experts does not suggest that the conditions that can be imposed by the court … It would be sufficient to address the unacceptable risk associated otherwise with the freedom of the defendant ”, the judge Dina Yehia SC in the case of the state in December.

“You need a very rigorous approach to managing conditions (The Man) … If this could be done in mental health services, I am not too confident,” said Rajan Darjee, the psychiatric expert, named in court.

The clinical director of the Criminal Hospital, Christina Matthews, told the court that the powers of the Law on mental health were not “suitable for purpose” when it came to the serial offender.

“(He has) risks of sexual crime quite considerable … The involvement of the corrective NSW services can allow some of these risks to be analyzed in a more comprehensive way,” she told the court.

Donato told the Parliament that the pendulum has thrown it too far from the rights of the victims to feel safe.

“It seemed that the system would have been designed to favor those who commit crimes, rather than support living victims and protect the community,” he said last month.

Donato had argued for electronic monitoring changes after a criminal was given an escorted leave at Bloomfield Hospital and was discovered using meeting applications.

He had killed his girlfriend just three years earlier.

“There was a shock and unbelief that someone who committed such a crime, in three years, was used on social networks to discuss with potential victims who are not respectively,” Donato told Herald.

“It was a complete failure of a system.”

Australia’s advocacy president Clare Collins said that parliamentarians who voted against electronic monitors “fail to realize that when criminal patients who commit such attractive acts, leave is granted … is done secret, and the killers may not know, without knowing any Electorate.

Within the government changes introduced this month, the court may prohibit patients from using social media on leave.

Judicial officers, such as magistrates and judges, will be obliged to register on uninteresting leave in another modification of the laws. Have always been forced to enroll in the final version.

“(Change) is intended to strengthen the power to make these relevant orders and stimulate the confidence of the community that the appropriate protections are in force,” Rose Jackson Minister Rose Jackson told Parliament.

In a separate announcement, Prime Minister NSW, Chris Minns, said this week that he would eliminate electronic ankle monitoring for the alleged offenders issued by courts following the bail HeraldInvestigating failures in the system of bail rehabilitation.

NSW Health said the Mental Health Review Tribunal and made orders based on expert evidence.