Parents petition to stop release of notorious paedophile Colin Charles Humphrys into Bowden-Brompton area

SCARED Brompton parents are calling on the State Government to overturn a court ruling allowing serial kidnapper and sex predator Colin Charles Humphrys’ release into their area.

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SCARED Brompton parents are calling on the State Government to overturn a court ruling allowing serial kidnapper and sex predator Colin Charles Humphrys’ release into their area.

Parents from Brompton Primary School have gathered almost 1000 signatures on a petition slamming the Supreme Court’s decision to release Humphrys under strict supervision, against a Parole Board recommendation.

The court granted Humphrys, 66, release to live in the Bowden-Brompton area, but under supervision with GPS monitoring and anti-libidinal medication, from May 14.

The petition from parents at the school calls on the State Government to intervene and stop Humphrys’ release.

School mother Michelle, who would not give her last name, started a petition last week calling on the government to overturn Supreme Court Justice Trish Kelly’s decision.

“I have been working with a couple of other mothers in the school and we are making petitions to go on Facebook and to go into local businesses,” Michelle said.

“We’ll also go doorknocking ourselves because it is absolutely terrible. We all have really young children and we all walk around here and go to the parks.

“We are surrounded by several schools and I don’t know how they picked a place with so many schools around it.”

Michelle said as a child-abuse victim herself, the decision was “unfair and unjustified”.

“I am a voter, I pay taxes and they don’t deserve the right to live like we do in a free society as we live everyday,” she said.

Humphrys is infamous for a criminal history spanning five states and more than 30 years, including the kidnapping of a boy, only known as XX, in 1990.

Convicted child molester Colin Charles Humphrys, Jan 1995. Picture: Supplied by police

In 2009, he was jailed for 10 years for abuse against another boy, 14.

Brompton Primary School mother Emma Rollands said she hoped the experts made an informed decision.

“Of course it worries you a little bit, understandably,” Ms Rollands said.

Another mother, Pamela Dreyer, said upon hearing the ruling it gave her “goosebumps” and a fear for the safety of local children.

Labor Croydon MP Peter Malinauskas and Federal Labor MP Kate Ellis have written to Attorney-General Vickie Chapman asking her to intervene in the case.

“We’ve also called to have an urgent meeting (so) we can talk about what the plan is, but also the reasons why this area is completely unsuitable,” Ms Ellis said in her letter.

“I don’t think local communities with schools, childcare centres and kindergartens are the solution.”

Justice Kelly said last week the Correctional Services Department had identified 11 potential risks with releasing Humphrys, but eight of those were “unlikely to arise”.

A further two more could be resolved through GPS tracking.

Ms Chapman said the government would wait to see the outcome of a review of the case by the Director of Public Prosecutions Adam Kimber SC and the result of a possible appeal.

The DPP has 10 days from the date the order was made in which to consider whether an appeal is appropriate.

“He does not expect to reach a view until towards the end of that period,” A spokeswoman for the DPP said.

SA paedophile Colin Humphrys on February 15, 2002.