Victim of pedophile Malcolm Winston Day says permitting him voluntary assisted dying is unjust to those he abused

Pedophile Malcolm Winston Day has reportedly died days after being accepted into SA’s voluntary assisted dying program, and his victim says that turns his punishment into “nothing”.

Pedophile music teacher Malcolm Winston Day. Picture: Sean Fewster.

Repeat pedophile Malcolm Winston Day has reportedly died just days after being accepted into SA’s voluntary assisted dying program – and one of his victims says there is “no justice” in his passing.

The woman, known as “Ann”, told The Advertiser she received a call late on Friday from the Department for Correctional Services to inform her Day, 81, had died.

She said the Department declined to tell her whether he died as a result of voluntary euthanasia or because of cancer.

Ann, who was abused by Day in the 1980s, said she was in no way opposed to voluntary assisted dying as it allowed the terminally ill to “embrace whatever power they can”.

However, she said she was disgusted Day had “once again” been given power over his own life, despite having taken that agency from her and his victims.

“How is it possible for a person imprisoned for vile crimes be given the right to dignity? What about my dignity? What about the dignity of his other victims?” she said.

“Day’s sentence was a small punishment for the lives he selfishly chose to impact, thinking of nothing but his own gratification – this small punishment is now made nothing.

“He had 17 years left on his sentence and should not be eligible to end it by his own choosing … he should have been serving it until he completed it or his life ended naturally.

“Isn’t a prison sentence supposed to be the deprivation of freedom to make your own choices? I didn’t want him to have another moment to control his own destiny when he so clearly disregarded the harm he did to so many during his life.

“All I asked was that he served his sentence … for the government to allow him to choose his own destiny is another blow.

“I hope this is the case that changes the legislation so that the next victim of the next offender does not have to experience this.”

Day has reportedly died just days after being accepted into SA’s voluntary assisted dying program. Picture: Sean Fewster

Day was first convicted of child sex offending in 2020, decades after he abused Ann during piano lessons, and was jailed for 12 years.

In 2022, he was convicted of further offending against another girl, and made ineligible for parole until September 25, 2034, or two days before his 93rd birthday.

Day, who had cancer, was understood to have begun the 11-step process to access voluntary assisted dying in SA.

The Advertiser further understood he was this week moved from a prison infirmary to a secure palliative care facility.

On Friday, Ann said she had written to Health Minister Chris Picton and Attorney-General Kyam Maher, asking they revoke Day’s access to the program, but received no response.

She said Day was “a monster” and a “vile, revolting man who had ruined many lives to bring himself pleasure” and satisfy his “perverted desires”.

She said he had taken advantage of program that was designed to allow those suffering to “control their destiny” in order to get “his power and freedom back”.

“He was given the privilege of choosing the moment he said goodbye to the world, likely surrounded by the people who still support him,” she said.

“This is not fair … I never had a right to choose how he treated me, I never chose the

regular ‘piano lesson’ with this grotesque man when I was 10 years old.

“He had not earned the respect in life to be able to end his life with dignity.

“This man, who rendered me and other girls completely powerless to end our pain and suffering at his hands, was given the power and freedom to end his own, on his terms again.

“It’s just not fair – it’s not justice.”