Review critical of release of Jill’s killer before murder

A scathing review of a parole system in Australia has criticised a decision to set a “recidivist serious, violent, sexual offender” loose months before he killed Irishwoman Jill Meagher.

Former High Court judge Ian Callinan was asked to scrutinise the parole system in Victoria State in the wake of the 2012 rape and killing of Louth native Ms Meagher.

The judge’s report outlined how, at the time of the attack, Adrian Bayley was: