Triple murderer Berwyn Rees walks free from a Sydney prison after almost 39 years behind bars

A man who killed two young people and a police officer has been released on parole after almost four decades in a NSW jail cell.

Notorious triple murderer Berwyn Rees has walked free from a Sydney prison after nearly 40 years behind bars.

The State Parole Authority granted parole on August 9 to the 70-year-old, who killed three men in the 1970s and 1980s including a serving police officer.

Rees left Silverwater jail this morning dressed in green track pants, a grey hoodie and carrying a white plastic bag.

Rees killed three men between 1977 and 1980.

He carried a plastic bag of his possessions into the waiting van. Picture: John Grainger

The Corrective Services NSW commissioner has ordered he be subject to strict conditions, including electronic monitoring and a pre-approved schedule of movements.

He is also not allowed to posses or use a firearm or prohibited weapon, cannot contact, communicate with or even watch his victims’ families and has been barred from several areas in Sydney, the Central Coast, Newcastle and Lake Macquarie.

He must also participate in a violent offender therapy program if directed by Corrective Services.

Rees appeared to struggle to get into the white van. Picture: John Grainger

Once inside, Rees ignored the waiting media but appeared to smirk. Picture: John Grainger

Rees was sentenced in 1981 to concurrent life sentences — with 27 years’ non-parole — for the three murders.

His victims included Sydney gun shop manager Raymond James, who was fatally shot in 1977 alongside customer Christopher Greenfield during an armed robbery.

Three years later, Rees shot and killed Sergeant Keith Haydon when the police officer went to investigate reports of shots fired in bushland near Lake Macquarie.

Sergeant Keith Haydon, 37, was killed at Sugarloaf, NSW in November 1980.

Originally published as Triple murderer Berwyn Rees walks free from a Sydney prison after almost 39 years behind bars