Criminals are breaching tough Extended Supervision Orders
The courageous victim of a violent sex predator has pleaded for him to remain locked up after he became the latest offender to breach one of the state’s tough Extended Supervision Orders.
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The courageous victim of a violent sex predator has pleaded for him to remain locked up after he became the latest offender to breach one of the state’s tough Extended Supervision Orders.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal that more of the 127 ex-prisoners who are currently deemed dangerous enough to be controlled by an ESO, 47 have breached them and are back behind bars.
Robi Alvin Amacha, 39, is one of those presently in jail after breaching his three-year ESO for the second time. He has also breached parole and offended 11 times in prison.
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Tracy Evans, 44, who was assaulted and sexually attacked by Amacha after meeting him in a club while celebrating a colleague’s birthday, said he has had too many chances.
“If I am able to keep him off the streets, if I am able to get one more terrible person or thing out of people’s homes, away from women and children, I can sleep at night knowing I’m safe as well as someone else,” Ms Evans said yesterday.
She said she had been scared to go to police after the attack in 2007 at her home in Miranda and she never wanted another woman to feel powerless and afraid to speak out. It took her 12 months to tell anyone.
He had given her an alias but when she finally went to police, they tracked him through DNA left on items at her home and linked him to another attack on a young woman in Paddington.
“I used eye drops every day ... my eyes were puffy from crying, I would use the drops in my eyes to lessen the swelling so that I could see. I showed up an hour late to work every morning, excused myself to cry in the stairwells,” Ms Evans, who worked for the NSW Ambulance Service, said.
“I can tell you all the best places in that building to cry where no one can hear you.”
The privately-educated Amacha was convicted in 2009 of three counts of sexual intercourse without consent after he followed the drunken woman home in a taxi from a Paddington hotel, the Supreme Court said.
As she screamed for help, he hit her in the face and told her: “Shut up or I’ll break your face.”
He pleaded guilty to the two offences of sexual intercourse against Ms Evans and was jailed for a total of nine years.
When he was due for parole in April 2016, Ms Evans wrote to the NSW Parole Authority supporting his release because she thought he needed to be supervised on his release. She even met her attacker face to face as part of restorative justice.
“He said he was sorry and looked me in the eye and said he would never reoffend. He lied,” Ms Evans said.
In December 2016 she learned he had breached parole but under the laws that protect offenders, not the victims, she did not know why. She attended Burwood Local Court on the day of his hearing to find he had assaulted another woman soon after he had met her.
“I introduced myself to her. She needed support to give evidence,” Ms Evans said.
Amacha was locked up again to complete his sentence and was released on the ESO after he had served his sentence in June 2017.
He is currently refused bail and is due to appear at Burwood Local Court on May 29 charged with his second breach of the ESO. The maximum penalty is five years.
“I am not just a victim of a night out. I am a human being who has been irreversibly hurt, my life was put on hold waiting to figure out if I was worth something,” Ms Evans said.
She said she was shocked there were so many people on an ESO - and so many breaches.
Other offenders subject to an ESO include self-confessed paedophile Michael Guider, the killer of Bondi schoolgirl Samantha Knight.
Paedophile Scott Lee Irwin, who a court was told has identified as transgender and was now known as Sheryl, has breached his ESO 11 times since 2014 and was sentenced to 18 months' jail with a 13-month non-parole period in Wollongong Local Court last year.
Irwin, 43, who had admitted carrying a “Santa suit” to get access to his young victims, had been caught in his latest breach looking up child pornography via a smartphone given to him by his supervising officer.
Victims Advocate Howard Brown said ESOs were essential to protect the community and help offenders reintegrate into society but if there was a serious breach, it had to be dealt with appropriately.
Attorney-General Mark Speakman yesterday said he could not comment on Amacha’s case because it was before the court.
“NSW makes no apology for having the toughest post-sentence laws in Australia,” Mr Speakman said.