Police sergeant Samantha Barlow was repeatedly bashed in the head with a brick and left for dead while she walked through Kings Cross on her way to work.
The drug addict who bashed a heroic police officer and left her for dead will be paroled despite warnings he is a “high risk of violent offending”, with his victim saying NSW has now become “a more dangerous place for women”.
“The authority has come to the view that the community safety is better protected by monitoring this offender on a very lengthy period of supervised parole with strict conditions to manage his reintegration and reduce his risk of reoffending,” it said in a statement.“If the offender were released at the end of sentence there would be no risk mitigation plan in place and no supervision, and the danger posed to community safety would be substantially greater.
“If we had known 12 months ago that he was up for parole… maybe we could have done something more to protect the community from this animal,” the Barlows said on Wednesday.The SPA said it considered reports by the Serious Offenders Review Council, psychiatric experts, and Community Corrections – all of whom had pushed for Holohan’s release.
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