Roderick Holohan was sentenced to 19 years for attacking Samantha Barlow in Sydney in 2009
A drug addict who bashed a police officer with a brick and left her for dead will be released from prison despite officials admitting he is a high risk of re-offending.
The NSW state parole authority on Wednesday ordered Holohan be released before the end of November, arguing it would be better for him to be monitored in the community than left unsupervised when he finished his full sentence. It heard evidence about Holohan’s poor behaviour in prison and his high risk of re-offending, although Corrective Services NSW still recommended he be released.
“There is no evidence to suggest that if the offender remains in custody, any of those factors are likely to undergo any positive change,” the authority said.
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