Hostage-taking Hindley St gunman Damien Keith Hall says he should not be under supervision

He took his family hostage, led police through the city and caused a shootout, but this repeat offender says he poses no risk to the community now he’s on parole.

The hostage-taking gunman whose high-speed chase through the city ended in a Hindley St shootout has told a court he is not a high-risk offender and should not be supervised.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard recently-paroled repeat offender Damien Keith Hall will fight a State Government bid to impose an extended supervision order on him.

If granted, the order would see Hall subject to more stringent monitoring and drug testing than other parolees – and could even lead to him being placed under home detention.

Garen Truscott, for Hall, said his client did not concede that was necessary.

“This application will be contested in its entirety,” he said.

Damien Keith Hall. Source: Facebook

In November 2016, Hall – then an ice addict – armed himself with a fake gun and went to the Cumberland Park home of his pregnant former partner.

He forced her and their children – aged three and seven months – into a car, threatened her neighbour and drove off, sparking a 90-minute police chase through the suburbs.

Hall drove through Rundle Mall and down Hindley St, where he threatened police with the cap gun before STAR Group officers fired a single shot, ending the incident.

Those offences occurred 12 months after Hall had indecently assaulted another woman – who had given him and his family a place to stay when they were homeless.

Despite his insistence that he was not a serious repeat offender, Hall was jailed for 4 ½ years with a non-parole period of two years and nine months.

On Wednesday, counsel for the Attorney-General’s Department said they had compiled the psychiatric reports needed to make an extended supervision order application.

Under state law, the court must be satisfied those reports show an offender poses “an appreciable risk” to public safety if not strictly monitored by authorities.

Mr Truscott said a three-hour hearing would be required to refute the department’s assertions.

“We will be seeking to have the experts called to court for cross-examination,” he said.

Justice David Peek ordered Hall – who was excused from attending Wednesday’s hearing – appear before him for a hearing in October.