Killers, sex offenders and drug dealers among those the AAT has saved from deportation
AN Irish paedophile priest, a Brazilian armed robber, a Kiwi killer and rapist — these are just some of the 164 foreign-born criminals saved from deportation by bureaucrats. See the full list of sex offenders, thugs and drug dealers spared since 2010.
Law & Order
Don't miss out on the headlines from Law & Order. Followed categories will be added to My News.
EIGHT killers and 66 other criminals with shocking records of violence are among foreign-born crooks the Administrative Appeals Tribunal has saved from deportation since 2010.
Members of the federal tribunal also overturned decisions by delegates of the Immigration Minister to rid Australia of 17 rapists, paedophiles and other sex offenders, 33 drug dealers, and 23 armed robbers.
The Herald Sun has identified 164 cases in the past eight years in which the AAT has rescued criminals whose visas were cancelled or not granted, 98 of them since 2013. Of the 164 cases, 33 were heard in Melbourne.
ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS TRIBUNAL: HOW DOES AAT WORK?
CHILD RAPIST PRIEST SPARED DEPORTATION
Ministerial delegates argued the deportations and other visa decisions were necessary to protect Australians, and that almost all of those whom they wanted to kick out of the country had “substantial criminal records”.
Contrary to the past five years, the latest figures show the AAT is now overruling more visa decisions by delegates for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton than it is upholding.
BELOW: SEE THE FULL LIST OF CRIMINALS SPARED SINCE 2010
It reviewed 13,755 visa decisions by delegates in the past financial year, rejecting 5276 and affirming only 5110.
The rest were withdrawn or dismissed, or the AAT lacked jurisdiction.
In each of the previous five years the AAT affirmed more visa decisions than it overruled.
But the AAT’s migration and refugee division has still varied, remitted or set aside 26,273 of the visa decisions made by delegates for the minister since July, 2012.
It is not possible for members of the public — or the media — to scrutinise the reasons behind the vast majority of finalised visa decisions made in the AAT’s migration and refugee division as the latest figures show it only published 12.5 per cent of them in 2015-16, 7.3 per cent in 2016-17 and 15.5 per cent so far this financial year.
While the AAT does publish almost all its general division decisions relating to convicted criminals whose visas were cancelled by a delegate for the immigration minister, they are not easy to find.
The Herald Sun had to wade through many hundreds of written AAT decisions to identify the 164 cases since 2010 where the AAT’s general and migration and refugee divisions came to the rescue of foreign born criminals by overruling deportation and other visa decisions made by delegates for the immigration minister.
Of the 164 cases, 98 of them were heard in Sydney, 31 in Melbourne, 13 each in Perth and Brisbane, 7 in Adelaide and one each in Hobart and Canberra.
The Herald Sun has previously reported on a number of disturbing individual cases where the AAT has saved criminals from being kicked out of Australia so it decided to comprehensively analyse every written decision made by the AAT’s general division since 2010 in relation to the visas of convicted criminals to see how many more such cases it could identify.
That painstaking and time-consuming exercise discovered a number of controversial cases where the AAT has overturned deportation and other visa decisions made by ministerial delegates, including:
A KILLER New Zealander who was part of a gang whose members kicked Dr Zhongjun Cao to death in Footscray as the academic was walking home from Victoria University. The man, referred to by the AAT only as Mr M to protect his identity, was in a gang of seven who attacked and robbed Dr Cao. He punched Dr Cao in the face while his co-offenders attacked the doctor from behind.
CRIMINALS GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE BY THE AAT
Mr M was convicted of manslaughter and robbery in 2008 when he was 18. Mr M smirked in the Supreme Court when Justice David Harper told him he would be serving his three year sentence in a youth detention centre, rather than in an adult jail.
While Mr M was in remand awaiting sentencing he was involved in a number of assaults on other prisoners. In 2013, AAT deputy president James Constance set aside the ministerial decision to cancel Mr M’s visa. Among his reasons for doing so were that “the Supreme Court has determined the appropriate punishment of Mr M. It is not the Tribunal’s role to punish him further” and that “it is likely Mr M would experience some difficulty in establishing himself in New Zealand”.
PAEDOPHILE Catholic priest Finian Egan, 83 was convicted in 2013 of raping a teenage girl and committing several serious sexual assaults against two other girls aged under 17. AAT deputy president Janine Stevenson late last year set aside Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s decision to cancel Egan’s citizenship so he could be deported back to Ireland. Mr Dutton said it was “contrary to the public interest” for Egan to remain in Australia. Justice Stevenson’s
reasons for allowing Egan to keep his Australian citizenship included Egan’s age and poor health, his low risk of reoffending, that Egan had lived in Australia since 1959 and that NSW Bishop Peter Comensoli had agreed to supervise Egan in Australia. Mr Dutton has appealed to the Federal Court to try to overturn the AAT decision to allow Egan to stay in Australia.
SAMOAN-BORN New Zealander Edward Anaki clocked up 127 criminal offences involving drugs and violence and was sentenced to jail on 33 occasions over a 29-year period. AAT part-time member Simon Webb overruled the decision to cancel Anaki’s visa in 2016, saying “while the limit of tolerance of Mr Anaki’s offending conduct has been reached and tested, it has not yet been exceeded”.
BRAZILIAN armed robber Pedro Fernandes was this year saved from deportation because
AAT deputy president James Constance believed that’s what “fair-minded” Australians would want him to do — despite Fernandes’ appalling criminal record including convictions for offences of violence.
A MUSLIM Iraqi father of seven who pretended to be a gay Christian to try to avoid deportation — and who racked up almost 30 convictions since arriving in Australia by boat in 1999 — was this year allowed to keep his visa largely because AAT member Peter Taylor decided the man would be unlikely to get the medication and monitoring his mental and physical health problems required if he was sent back to Iraq.
ENGLISHMAN Nicholas Brown was convicted 65 times between 1988 and 2010, including for grievous bodily harm, several assaults, drug dealing, aggravated burglary, resisting arrest, criminal damage and breaching court orders on multiple occasions. In 2012, AAT deputy president Stan Hotop set aside the decision to cancelling Brown’s visa and allowed him to stay in Australia. He did so despite saying in his ruling that the he considered there was a real risk that Brown might “reoffend in a serious manner involving violence”. Mr Hotop said his understanding of the standards and values of the Australian community meant “such risk would not be unacceptable to the Australian community”.
KILLER Iranian Hassan Baharestan arrived in Australia as a stowaway and was granted a permanent entry permit on humanitarian grounds. Baharestan’s application for Australian citizenship was refused in 2010 as he was convicted of manslaughter after stabbing Church of Christ Minister Douglas Good to death. In 2011, senior AAT member Andre Sweidan set aside the deportation decision and remitted the case back to the Immigration Department with a direction that Baharestan was of “good character” and should be granted Australian citizenship
SOUTH KOREAN murderer Soobeom Park was jailed in his homeland after fatally stabbing his wife and the mother of their four children. He later lied on his Australian passenger arrival card by declaring he had no criminal convictions. In 2011, AAT senior member Narelle Bell set aside the decision to refuse Park a partner visa and instead decided to allow him to stay in Australia. In doing so, Ms Bell said “it was urged on me to view the murder as an isolated event, a ‘crime of passion’. I am inclined to do so”.
NEW ZEALANDER sexual predator Gerald Adamson raped and killed student Lisa King, 21, as she slept during a Sydney house party held by Brendan Ballesty, the son of the then Canterbury Leagues club general manager John Ballesty, and attended by the then Prime Minister John Howard’s son Tim. Adamson pleaded guilty and was jailed for 14 years.
Adamson had prior convictions for supplying a prohibited drug and malicious wounding. He also twice failed urine tests for drugs while in jail. AAT senior member Ms Geri Ettinger set aside the decision to deport Adamson and remitted the case back to the immigration minister for reconsideration with a direction to the minister that the discretion to cancel Adamson’s visa “not be exercised”. One of the reasons she overruled the deportation decision was because “I am satisfied that the risk of Mr Adamson again engaging in criminal conduct in Australia, including sexual assault, is low” and that “he poses a low risk in terms of compromising the protection of the Australian community”. The minister chose not to follow the AAT’s direction and kicked Adamson out of Australia in 2011.
FORMER Carlton AFL player and Papua New Guinea citizen Peter Labi, whose visa was cancelled in 2016 after a delegate for the immigration minister decided there was a risk Labi would engage in criminal conduct in Australia or harass, molest, intimidate or stalk another person in Australia.
Labi had pleaded guilty to contravening the conditions of a court order. He was arrested after he left a threatening message on his partner’s voicemail and sent her a series of objectionable text messages. One of those messages said “I will drive around Cairns and find you and I will brutally beat whoever you are seeing or with” and another said “I will smash and destroy his face”.
GAMBLING addicted Greek drug dealer Vasilios Maikantis was convicted of 50 offences during 27 court appearances between 1977 and 2016. His latest convictions were in November 2016 for cultivating a commercial quantity of cannabis, drug trafficking and breaching a suspended sentenced he was given in 2013 for obtaining financial advantage by deception by using the title deed to a friend’s house to obtain $240,00 to pay gambling debts. In January this year AAT deputy president Stephanie Anne Forgie set aside the decision not to grant Maikantis a bridging visa and remitted the case back to Immigration Minister Peter Dutton with a direction that Maikantis’ application for a visa not be refused. Ms Forgie’s reasons for doing so included that Maikantis’ priest gave evidence that Maikantis participated in many of the church’s fund raising functions and contributed generously to the church’s needs. “We are satisfied that the Australian community would want us to recognise the good that Mr Maikantis has done as well as the bad and would want us to give him a second chance,” Ms Forgie said in her written decision.
A SEX offending Iraqi who claimed to have converted to Christianity and who the AAT decided not to name. He illegally arrived in Australia by boat in 2012 and after being put into an immigration detention centre in Nauru he was convicted of two counts of indecent assault committed on a Nauruan woman. He also took part in a riot at the detention centre and admitted throwing rocks at police during the unlawful assembly. AAT senior member Ms Adria Poljak last year found the Iraqi was of good character and that his application for a temporary protection visa should not be refused.
ZAMBIAN sex offender Likumbo Makasa’s visa was cancelled after he was found guilty of three counts of having sex with a minor and three counts of assault against his former partner.
AAT deputy president Brian Tamberlin, QC, said Makasa’s assaults against his former partner were “offences involving violence” but he still set aside the deportation decision made by a delegate for the immigration minister and in 2013 substituted it with a decision that Makasa’s visa not be cancelled.
Mr Tamberlin’s reasons for doing so included that “while the conduct is serious and of a sexual nature it is not at the higher end of the spectrum of seriousness”.
An AAT spokeswoman last night said Tribunal members were required to apply the law enacted by the federal Parliament, including any relevant Ministerial directions. “The Tribunal is required to consider additional information that may not have been before the original decision maker and conducts hearings to test evidence,” she said.
“The Tribunal, as an important part of the Government’s administrative decision-making process, values public scrutiny and is also subject to the supervision of the Federal Court.
“The Tribunal provides applicants with the opportunity for independent review of decisions made under more than 400 Commonwealth Acts, including matters relating to taxation, social security, the NDIS, workers’ compensation and veterans’ appeals. Since 2009-10, the AAT (including all of the tribunals that were amalgamated into it on 1 July 2015) finalised a total of 291,744 matters.
“From 2009-10 until 31 March 2018, the AAAT finalised 729 cases relating to visa cancellations or refusals on character grounds.
“In the last financial year (2016-17), of the 168 cases finalised of this type, 52 per cent affirmed the decision made by the original decision maker, 29 per cent of cases were withdrawn, dismissed or not reviewable and the remaining 19 per cent set aside the decision made by the original decision maker.”
FULL LIST OF CRIMINALS SPARED SINCE 2010
THESE are the 164 cases in the past eight years where the Administrative Appeals Tribunal has saved criminals from deportation, indefinite immigration detention, or, in a few instances, allowed them into Australia, by overturning decisions made by delegates for the immigration minister to either cancel the visas of the criminals or refuse to grant them one. The AAT has used pseudonyms in some cases.
Cases so far in 2018:
BFXK
Indian who arrived in Australia in 1997 on a temporary visa. His application for a protection visa was denied and he has been an unlawful non-citizen on three separate occasions since then due to not holding a current visa. Has convictions for domestic violence — including assault occasioning actual bodily harm — and several driving offences, including driving while suspended and drink-driving.
PEDRO FERNANDES
Brazilian with convictions for armed robbery, violence offences, shoplifting, destroy or damage property and drink driving.
TONY CAMPBELL
New Zealander with convictions for drug dealing and driving offences.
RAMON HOWARD JOHN MAHU
New Zealander with several convictions for possessing illegal drugs with the intent to sell or supply those drugs, as well as convictions for assault, criminal damage, escape from custody and disorderly behaviour.
CBYQ
Nationality not disclosed. Was granted a temporary partner visa in July 2013 after marrying an Australian woman. They separated six months later. Has convictions for violence and breaching court orders. Continued to live in Australia as an unlawful non-citizen after his visa expired. Claims he would be subjected to harm if deported because he is bisexual and was charged in his homeland with an offence related to homosexuality.
ASILIOS MAIKANTIS
Gambling addicted Greek drug dealer convicted of 50 offences during 27 court appearances between 1977 and 2016, including for cultivating a commercial quantity of cannabis and drug trafficking.
RATU MELI KOYADRADRA ULUIKAVORO QORO
Fijian with convictions for assault, drink-driving and breaching court orders.
GXNY
Iraqi citizen whose application for a protection visa was rejected by a delegate for the immigration minister after GXNY pleaded guilty to supplying a prohibited drug.
FTYC
Cambodian drug mule who was jailed for seven years and six months after she smuggled heroin into Australia.
DAVID GORDON
New Zealander with a long list of weapons and drug offences, including being jailed for three years and six months for drug trafficking.
BHKM
Ice-addicted Philippines national who argued his drug use and convictions for robbery, assault and reckless wounding would see him killed at the hands of the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte if he was deported.
MICHAEL JAYBA
Sudanese man with convictions for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, breaching court orders and three drink-driving offences.
MAH
A Muslim Iraqi father of seven who pretended to be a gay Christian to try to avoid deportation racked up almost 30 convictions, including for assault and theft, since arriving in Australia by boat in 1999.
JL. New Zealander with convictions for armed robbery, break and enter, assault and failing for 14 years to turn himself in to authorities after breaching his parole conditions.
GAVIN FURLONG
Irishman with convictions for disorderly conduct, giving a false name to police, assault, drink-driving, dangerous driving, failing to stop and assist after a crash and using obscene and indecent language.
Cases in 2017:
FINIAN EGAN
Irish paedophile priest who was convicted of raping a teenage girl and committing several serious sexual assaults against two other girls aged under 17.
SHANE HODSON
UK citizen with convictions for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, common assault, assault with intent to resist arrest, assault police, shoplifting, dangerous driving and possessing illegal drugs.
JAGDEEP SINGH
Indian taxi driver who sexually assaulted a female passenger.
AHMET CANDEMIR
A Turkish drug dealer with multiple convictions for peddling drugs, including commercial quantities of ice and heroin.
HDMN
New Zealander. Lied on his immigration forms by not revealing his criminal record. Has convictions for robbery, assault, assaulting police, stalking, possession of illegal drugs, selling illegal drugs and resisting arrest.
SHANZAD IRANI
Indian who lied on his immigration forms by not revealing his criminal record. Has convictions for serious driving offences including drink-driving and driving while disqualified.
DEAN MOLLOY
Irishman with convictions for possessing a trafficable quantity of illegal drugs, breach of bail, supplying illegal drugs, drink-driving and driving while unlicensed.
VICTOR RANDALLS
Irishman with convictions for assault, threatening behaviour, assault police and several driving offences. He lied on immigration forms by not revealing his convictions.
WXDX
Arrived in Australia from an undisclosed country as an unauthorised maritime arrival. A delegate for the immigration minter refused WXDX’s application for a bridging visa as he failed to pass the character test on the grounds of his domestic and family violence history and that if he was allowed to stay in Australia there was a risk he would harass, molest, intimidate or stalk another person.
PKJT
New Zealander jailed for four years and three months after being convicted of robbery in company causing wounding and while on parole for that offence he was convicted of destroying property.
KDSP
Citizen of Afghanistan who arrived in Australia in 2013 as an unauthorised marital arrival. Granted a temporary humanitarian stay visa and later a bridging visa. He was later convicted of two assault charges and contravening an apprehended violence order.
RAMY HENIN
Egyptian with convictions for assault, failing to answer bail and breaching a community correction order.
AHMED ESHAG ELNOR AHMED
Sudanese man who arrived in Australia in 2006 and was granted a refugee visa. Has never worked in Australia. His status as a disability support pensioner provides him with a fortnightly benefit of about $800. His lengthy criminal record includes several assault convictions, stalking, assault police, threats to kill, possessing stolen goods, possessing illegal drugs, theft and dealing with the proceeds of crime.
PHNR
Sex offending Iraqi who arrived in Australia as an unauthorised maritime arrival in 2012. While in immigration detention in Nauru he was convicted of two counts of indecent assault committed on a Nauruan woman. He also took part in a riot at the detention centre and admitted throwing rocks at police.
CCGW
Cook Islander with convictions for robbery and violence, including assault police, resisting arrest, breaking entering and stealing and breaching parole.
SLAIMEN DAYOUB
Lebanese man with convictions for assault, stalking with intent to intimidate and destroying property.
KIT LING IRENE KWOK
Ms Kwok appealed against a decision by a delegate for the immigration minister to refuse to grant a visa to her Hong Kong born mother Shik Ye Fong. Ms Fong was extradited to Hong Kong from Sydney and later pleaded guilty to 26 charges of theft and fraud.
VIET HOANG NGUYEN
Vietnamese drug trafficker convicted of importing a commercial quantity of pseudoephedrine.
JOSEPH KANE ENGI
New Zealander with convictions for assault, theft, drink-driving, being in possession of stolen goods and breaching bail conditions.
KRYSTAL TRIKILIS
She appealed against the decision not to grant her Palestinian husband a partner visa so he could join her in Sydney. Her husband, identified by the AAT only as Mr Khalil, was convicted in an Israeli military court of being a member of the Islamic terrorist group the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and “conspiracy to cause intentional death”. The court jailed him for 34 months. Mr Khalil was accused of making and planting a bomb and attempting to recruit a suicide bomber. He admitted lying on his application to migrate to Australia by not declaring his convictions.
QUANG QUYET BUI
Vietnamese man convicted of cultivating cannabis after police raided his home and found a sophisticated hydroponic cannabis growing system operating in almost every room.
CASE NUMBER 1702551
Apex gang member from New Zealand with convictions in Australia for assaulting a police officer, resisting a police officer, assaulting an emergency worker, robbery, recklessly causing injury, breach of probation, theft, use cannabis, possess cannabis and obtaining property by deception.
FAISAL ALAM
Was ordered out of Australia after he posed as an official of the Australian Immigration Department to con fellow Bangladeshis out of more than $87,000 they paid into an account controlled by him in return for him supposedly helping them get visas. Alam was jailed over the fraud after pleading guilty to making a false Commonwealth document and falsely representing himself to be an Australian Commonwealth official.
OH
Violent Turkish man who was given a spouse visa so he could come to Australia to take part in an arranged marriage. That marriage lasted 20 days. His visa was cancelled after he pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary, recklessly causing injury and threatening to kill.
NDFN
Malaysian with convictions for assaulting police, assault with a weapon and drink-driving.
WCJS. Bangladeshi with convictions for assault.
MOHAMAD ZBIB
Lebanese man who lied on his Australian immigration forms in 2005, 2008 and 2010 by failing to disclose his conviction in Lebanon for committing an indecent act, described as “molestation of a minor”, for which he was jailed for two years. Also convicted in Australia of drink-driving and unlicensed driving.
TALAL SOUEID
Lebanese citizen jailed for two years after he was convicted of robbery armed with an offensive weapon.
RAMESH CHAND
Fijian convicted of embezzlement.
VISHAL BHARDWAJ
Indian convicted of violent offences. He also forged a document and fraudulently applied his wife’s signature to a document to facilitate release of his wife’s medical information and then published it on Facebook. He later acknowledged publication of that personal data would bring shame and embarrassment to his wife and her family.
LQVM
Vietnamese who was jailed for four years and three months after pleading guilty to several drug related crimes, including theft, cultivation of cannabis by hydroponic means in her home and trafficking in heroin and ice. She also used her teenage son as an interpreter and on at least one occasion he handled a foil containing drugs and gave them to a drug syndicate customer.
LUKE HAZELHURST
UK citizen who failed to reveal his criminal history when entering Australia in 2016. Has convictions for assault, obtaining property by deception, theft and several driving offences.
ONG CHIN JUI DENISON
Malaysian jailed for 18 months after being convicted of causing grievous bodily harm and taking part in an affray. The victim received several injuries, including a brain injury. Has other convictions for assault and disturbing the peace by fighting.
Cases in 2016:
JOONMO OH
Korean man with convictions for armed robbery, negligent driving and providing false information.
THI HONG TRAN
Vietnamese woman jailed for 18 months, fully suspended, for cultivating a commercial quantity of cannabis.
PETER LABI
Former Carlton AFL player from Papua New Guinea whose visa was cancelled after he pleaded guilty to contravening a court order. He was arrested after he left a threatening message on his partner’s voicemail and sent her a series of objectionable text messages. One of those messages said “I will drive around Cairns and find you and I will brutally beat whoever you are seeing or with” and another said “I will smash and destroy his face”.
YOONG XIANG LIM
Singaporean who lied on his Australian immigration form by not disclosing his criminal record, which included pleading guilty to possessing illegal drugs and shoplifting.
KAMLESH KUMAR
Fijian with convictions for assault, criminal intimidation and drink-driving.
LMYW
AAT didn’t disclose his country of birth, but said it was a conservative country where homosexuality was against the law. LMYW claimed he would be persecuted because of his homosexuality if he was deported. He has a number of drug related convictions. The judge who jailed him for two years and eight months said LMYW had been involved in “substantial drug trafficking” and was well above being a street level dealer in the hierarchy of drug trafficking.
KYLE GUNDESEN
New Zealander whose convictions include breaking and entering, assault, assault police, burglary, drug offences, including producing and supplying, unlawful use of vehicles and drink-driving.
JOE TUMAIALU
New Zealander who was jailed for four years after being convicted of four counts of robbery, seven counts of burglary. He has also been convicted of armed robbery and assault.
BPWZ. Somalian with convictions for armed robbery, threat to kill, false imprisonment, theft, obtain property by deception and failing to answer bail.
ANYA WETI-SAFWAN
New Zealander. She committed an extensive number of criminal offences between 1997 and 2015, including multiple counts of shoplifting, breaking and entering and possession of prohibited drugs.
EDWARD ANAKI
New Zealander of Samoan extraction who has been sentenced to jail on 33 occasions after being convicted of 127 criminal offences, 81 of which involved drugs, over a 29 year period.
DOUGLAS RABINO
Brazilian armed robbery who was jailed for four years after attacking and robbing a supermarket owner.
LIONEL ALLAN
New Zealander with convictions for assault, recklessly causing grievous bodily harm, burglary, shoplifting and possession of an offensive weapon. He lied on his immigration form by not revealing his criminal convictions.
ULUIBAU DAVOU
Fijian with convictions for assaulting a police officer, resisting an officer in the execution of his duty, drink-driving, theft and making a false statement.
DHAMIJA PTY LTD
The company appealed to the AAT on behalf of Daljeet Singh, an Indian citizen it was sponsoring to come to Australia. Singh was convicted of dangerous driving causing death.
MANMOHAN CHANDER
UK citizen who lied on his immigration form by not disclosing his criminal record when arriving in Australia on a visitor visa. Offences on Chander’s criminal record include assault, dangerous driving, burglary, theft, possessing an illegal drug, robbery and carrying an imitation firearm with intent to commit a crime.
SHAUN TE KANAWA
New Zealander with convictions for assault, burglary, theft, possession of a drug of dependence, possession of a prohibited weapon and theft of a motor vehicle.
GYANESHWAR LATCHMAN
Fijian with convictions for assault and obtaining money by deception.
HOANG NGUYEN
Vietnamese man who was charged with carrying dangerous goods on an aircraft when he attempted to take 100 mobile phones on board to sell in Vietnam. He was convicted of handling stolen goods, supplying identifying information for the purpose of committing an indictable offence and obtaining property by deception.
MITHU KUMAR SAHA
Bangladeshi charged with assault.
CARL VAN ROOYEN
South African who became addicted to ice and turned to crime to obtain drugs for himself and his partner. He used stolen credit cards supplied to him by a drug dealer to obtain money and goods, some of which he provided to the dealer in exchange for drugs. Pleaded guilty to a large number of charges involving dishonest related to property and financial dealings and possession of goods suspected of having been stolen.
Cases in 2015:
LCNB
Tongan who applied for a protection visa claiming he had a reasonable fear of persecution as a homosexual if deported to his homeland. Pleaded guilty to a charge of lewdness involving a child. Also convicted of forgery offences involving the obtaining of false passports. Lied on his immigration forms by not disclosing his criminal convictions.
LHJS
Syrian convicted of two counts of indecently assaulting a 16-year-old girl.
AREEZ JAFFERI
Afghani whose application for Australian citizenship was refused by a delegate for the immigration minister on the grounds Jafferi was not of good character based on him having been charged with recklessly causing injury, unlawful assault with a weapon and unlawful assault. The charges were dismissed after Jafferi agreed to be of good character for a set period and to complete the Men’s Behaviour Change Program.
GJRL
Tongan who appeared in a court every year between 1995 and 2003 and appeared for the last time in 2008. He was charged on 86 occasions and has 69 convictions for offences including aggravated burglary.
Cases in 2014:
EDITOR SAUVAO
Samoan with a long list of convictions, including for assault, burglary, wilful damage and breaching bail.
IAN CRONIN
Irishman with convictions for assault causing serious harm, common assault, possessing an illegal drug, theft of a motor car, criminal damage and drink-driving.
Cases in 2013:
MOREHU RANGIWAI
New Zealander who was convicted of indecently dealing with a child under the age of 16. The court was told Rangiwai sexually molested the girl in a cabin at a holiday village.
LIKUMBO MAKASA
Zambian sex offender who was found guilty of three counts of having sex with a minor and three counts of assault against his former partner.
THE APPLICANT
A Vietnamese woman the AAT chose to refer to just as the applicant. She has two convictions for cultivating commercial quantities of a prohibited plant.
SUHAIL DURANI
Indian doctor who was convicted of two counts of sexual penetration without consent and three counts of indecent assault.
NAME SUPPRESSED
Chinese woman convicted of drug offences, including trafficking marketable quantities of cocaine and heroin, trafficking a commercial quantity of ice and dealing with more than $1 million in money believed to be proceeds of crime.
TOKORUA PAREINA
Cook Islander with convictions for assault, assault police, common assault, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
MONITA VEA
Tongan with convictions for assault, recklessly causing injury, aggravated burglary, robbery, possessing and using illegal drugs and theft.
STEVEN JIONE
Fijian with convictions for maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm, common assault and contravening a domestic violence order. One of his victims was left in a permanent vegetative state.
TVCA
Tongan with an extensive criminal record that includes assaulting police, malicious wounding, escaping from custody and firearms offences.
TUAN ANH HOANG
Vietnamese with more than 50 convictions for offences including robbery with wounding, drug use and dealing, shoplifting and weapons offences.
SEAN GABRIEL
New Zealander convicted of armed robbery on five separate victims.
JDNZ
New Zealander who committed many offences over an 11 year period during which she stole large amounts of property during home invasions. Also has convictions for burglary, wilful damage, fraud, stealing and unlawful use of motor vehicles.
JXVH
Chinese who claimed he would be harmed if deported back to China. Convicted of possessing and trafficking illegal drugs.
PAULA AMIR
UK citizen with convictions for prostitution, breaching apprehended violence orders, drink-driving, breaking and entering and supplying illegal drugs.
CHARLIE JUNIOR TIARE TAUARIKI
New Zealander with multiple convictions for assault as well as convictions for burglary, theft and breaching apprehended domestic violence orders.
CARL STAFFORD
New Zealander who was charged with more than 500 offences raped and tortured a woman in her home after the AAT overturned a decision to deport him.
DSR
UK citizen jailed for eight years for a ram raid at a shopping centre in which he stole an automatic teller machine. Also has convictions for armed robbery.
WILLIAM ANAKI
Bank robber from New Zealand who also has convictions for assault.
THHT
A killer New Zealander who was part of a gang whose members kicked Dr Zhongjun Cao to death in Footscray.
PHUONG DO
Vietnamese with a large number of convictions for drug offences, including trafficking heroin and cannabis. He also has convictions for assault, theft and weapons offences.
NEKEWHENUA WIRIHANA
New Zealander with a substantial criminal record of more than 15 charges, including for armed robbery, assault, drug dealing and drug use.
Cases in 2012:
MARK GARY MILLER
New Zealander with convictions for armed robbery, doing grievous bodily harm, attempting to pervert the course of justice and wilful damage.
JOHN CHUKWUDI ANOCHIE
Nigerian jailed for eight years and six months for importing a marketable quantity of cocaine into Australia.
DANIEL TUMAI
New Zealander with convictions for a number of assaults.
YIMAM SHUME
Ethiopian who was jailed for four years after being convicted of reckless wounding, being armed with a knife with the intend to assault, breaking into a home and committing assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
JOHN ROPIHA
New Zealander with convictions which include assault, break and enter, drug offences stalking and using an offensive weapon.
NICHOLAS BROWN
Englishman who was convicted 65 times between 1988 and 2010, including for grievous bodily harm, several assaults, drug dealing, aggravated burglary, resisting arrest criminal damage and breaching family violence restraining orders.
JEREMY SOLOMON KINGI
New Zealander with many convictions, including for making threats to kill, several assault, burglary, theft and breach of bail.
PZJK. Chinese prostitute with convictions for obtaining financial advantage by deception.
JIKOIVAVALAGI TEMO
Fijian whose convictions include armed robbery, using an offensive weapon to prevent arrest, grievous bodily harm and aggravated robbery with wounding.
TEREAPII RUATITA
New Zealander with convictions for assault, stalking and breach of court orders.
LOKER MANDELLA NONO
Sudanese with convictions for armed robbery, resisting police and having a knife in a public place.
FRANK MAKERE MATIU
New Zealander who was jailed for four years for intentionally causing serious injury.
VWLL
New Zealander who was jailed for nine years for drug trafficking.
SAMEER AL-ALGAM
Iraqi convicted of making false statements and driving offences.
HBMB
UK born teacher who had a sexual relationship with one of his 15-year-old female students. He was jailed for four years and six months after being convicted of nine sexual offences including sexual penetration of a child under 16, committing indecent acts with a child under 16 and possession of child pornography.
MARK ANTHONY WILLIAMS
Irishman guilty of various driving offences and convictions for disorderly behaviour and giving false details to police.
Cases in 2011:
VISA CANCELLATION APPLICANT
No name given by AAT. Fijian whose convictions included armed robbery and possession of weapons.
GREGORY JAMES STONE
New Zealander who racked up 42 convictions between 1982 and 2002, including for assault and drink-driving.
CHARLIE MAURANGI
Cook Islander with convictions for manslaughter, robbery, break and enter and assault.
RCLN
Iranian with convictions for drug offences, assault and firearms offences.
THANH QUOC TRAN
Vietnamese jailed for six years for importing a marketable quantity of heroin into Australia.
SETTIMIO FINA
Italian with convictions for assault, aggravated burglary possessing and trafficking narcotics and breaching court orders.
CHIEN VAN KHONG
Vietnamese man with several drug convictions, including supplying and possessing illegal drugs.
RICHARD ALEXANDER BRADLEY
Scottish hitman jailed for 17 years after being convicted of murdering a Melbourne man by shooting him in the head with a sawn-off rifle because the murdered man’s wife paid him $2000 to do so.
DANIEL LOMAS
New Zealander with convictions for armed robbery, assault, and break and enter and steal.
SHAUN ROBERT TUIRA
New Zealander with convictions for armed robbery, assaulting police and possessing illegal drugs.
WILLIAM GAGE
New Zealander convicted of aggravated robbery and drink-driving.
DIRICHUKWU PATRICK NWEKE
Nigerian jailed for 10 years for importing a commercial quantity of illegal drugs into Australia.
ZENAIDA ARTIGAS
Filipino jailed for six years after being convicted of nine counts of obtaining benefit by deception.
JENNIFER ANDERSON
New Zealander with convictions for armed robbery, shoplifting, receiving stolen property and various driving offences.
SAJEN SATNESH PRASAD
Fijian whose convictions include break and enter, assault and breach of court orders.
ALEJANDRO TORO MARTINEZ
Columbian jailed for 12 years and six months for importing a commercial quantity of cocaine into Australia.
OPETAIA BABAKOBAU BAUDROMO
Fijian convicted of several offences, including aggravated break and enter, aggravated assault, armed robbery, stealing property, possess prohibited drug an possess prohibited weapon. Jailed for 11 years and three months.
LASALO PAEU
New Zealander convicted of supplying a commercial quantity of an illegal drug.
DIPANGKEAR PAUL
Bangladeshi convicted of aggravated sexual assault, assault with an act of indecency and inflicting actual bodily harm on a victim.
MIZAN UL ISLAM
Bangladeshi with convictions for aggravated robbery, assault and intentionally inflicting actual bodily harm.
WEI ZHENG WONG
Malaysian convicted cultivating a commercial quantity of cannabis.
HASAN BAHARESTAN
Iranian who arrived in Australia as a stowaway and was later convicted of manslaughter after stabbing Church of Christ Minister Douglas Good to death.
JOSEPH WILLIAMS
New Zealander with convictions for armed robbery, arson and assaulting police.
HEYDON TEWAO
New Zealander with convictions for aggravated robbery and assault.
VENA GEORGE LETOGA
New Zealander whose convictions include assault and break and enter.
PHONG HOANG TRAN
Vietnamese with an extensive criminal history of offences committed between 1995 and 2010, including possessing and supplying illegal drugs, assault, stealing and shoplifting.
CLARKE METEKA
Cook Islander with convictions for aggravated robbery, malicious wounding and demand money with intent to steal.
TAIKI TANIWHA
New Zealander with convictions for violence and breach of court orders.
SOOBEOM PARK
South Korean convicted of murder.
Cases in 2010:
ANTHONY OBELE
Nigerian jailed for eight years on two counts of importing trafficable quantities of cocaine into Australia.
JASON COOPER
New Zealander whose long list of convictions include assault, possessing illegal drugs, obtaining financial advantage by deception and going armed in public in a manner to cause fear.
ELIA TOMO
Iraqi who was jailed for 18 years after being convicted of murder.
JOHN COLQUHOUN
Scottish man who committed 82 offences between 1981 and 2007, including for rape and robbery with violence.
SUZANNE MARY DAHLGREN
She applied on behalf of her husband and US citizen Roy Clyde Dahlgren. His application for a tourist visa was denied on the grounds he did not pass the character test. He was charged with murder in the US but entered into a plea agreement — which was accepted by the court — that he would be charged with voluntary manslaughter with a sentence of eight years.
DOMINIC PESAMINO
New Zealander with convictions for armed robbery, assault police, theft, robbery and recklessly causing injury.
LEIGHTON ORMSBY
New Zealander convicted of rape.
JUAN PABLO SMIT ROMERO
Columbian who pleaded guilty to one count of deprivation of liberty and one count of indecent dealing with a child under the age of 13.
CONG TINH NGYEN
Vietnamese whose long criminal record includes convictions for possessing and supplying illegal drugs, break and enter and steal, wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm and assault.
LUTHER JAMES STEPHENS
New Zealander with convictions for assaulting police, stalking an possessing illegal drugs.
TIPUNA TIHEMA
New Zealander with convictions for shoplifting and maliciously destroying property.
DRASKO MANDIC
Bosnian whose convictions include assault with a weapon, break and enter and steal and burglary.
DNCW
Maltese man convicted of attempted incest with his 12-year-old stepdaughter and the rape of his wife.
FVHQ
Afghani man refused a partner visa by a delegate for the immigration minister on the grounds of his association with the KhAD, which the delegate described as a “repressive regime which is commonly known to have committed atrocities”.
TAPITA DROLLETT
New Zealander who was jailed on ten separate occasions after she was convicted of offences including armed robbery, assault and demanding property with menaces.
LARRISSA PAENGA
New Zealander convicted of aggravated robbery, assault, shoplifting and stealing cars.
GERALD ADAMSON
New Zealander who raped and killed student Lisa King.
WILLIAM TALBOT
New Zealander who was a member of the Black Power gang. His convictions include assault, intimidation and arson.
JASON HENARE
New Zealander with convictions for assault.
HQKW
Samoan who was jailed for nine years in relation to a number of sexual offences against a child.
DAVID KENZIE
New Zealander with convictions for assault, demanding property with menaces, robbery, theft and break and enter and steal.
VITURIJE MUJEDINOVSKI
She appealed on behalf of her Albanian father Sadik Selimi after a delegate for the immigration minister refused Selimi’s visa application on the grounds he allegedly entered into a sham marriage to try to get an Australian visa. He was convicted of 10 charges relating to the sham marriage and providing false documents to the Immigration Department.
STEPHEN SHEA
He appealed to the AAT on behalf of his Thai wife Darunee Shea after a delegate for the immigration minister refused her application for a partner visa on the grounds she was not of good character because of her criminal conduct.
MORE HERALD SUN NEWS:
LABOR BUNGLES CONFIDENTIAL BUDGET BRIEFING