The NSW premier has promised a change to the Victims Registry after former police officer Samantha Barlow was left in the dark about her violent attacker’s parole hearing.
Former police officers Samantha Barlow, and husband Laurence, only found out her attacker was up for parole through unofficial whispers.“The system isn’t good enough, so I’d like to see changes because we need to be completely transparent with victims of crime,” Minns said.
Holohan, the SPA heard, has been a troublesome prisoner – guards found a prison weapon inside his cell in 2020. Holohan on Thursday muttered angrily and attempted to talk over SPA Chair Geoffrey Bellew SC and lawyers for the State of NSW who were concerned about his “high risk of violent reoffending”.
Another expert from NSW Community Corrections, Jessica Bassili, told the hearing Holohan wanted to go back to Nowra so he could “reconnect with country”.Photographic The Victims Registry, which works with victims of serious crimes, is an opt-in service and the Barlows say they were not approached in 2009, so they fell through the cracks.
But, he added, victims needed to know the registry was available to them “to participate in the process at their own discretion”.
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