Family of Alicia Schiller victim shocked convicted murderer approved for IVF treatment

The grandparents of a young boy present when his mother was brutally slain by Alicia Schiller say they are shocked the convicted murderer will be allowed to undergo IVF treatment.

Tyrelle Evertsen-Mostert was brutally slain by Alicia Schiller over $50. Picture: 7News

The grandparents of the young boy who was present when his mother Tyrelle Evertsen-Mosert was brutally slain by Alicia Schiller over $50 have revealed they’re shocked and devastated by news the convicted murderer will now be allowed to undergo IVF treatment from prison.

Jim and Yvonne Gentle, the parents of Ms Evertsen-Mosert’s partner, Jason Gentle, said it was simply not right that “someone who’s stolen away motherhood from a little boy”, should now be afforded the privilege of being a mother herself.

Jason Gentle is the father of Ms Evertsen-Mosert’s son.

“She’s taken the life of somebody, and then she wants to be a mother herself,” Mrs Gentle said on Wednesday.

“This woman has destroyed the motherhood of (Tyrelle’s son), who has had his mother taken away by this woman, so she’s denied him a mother, and here she is, wanting this, almost like holy type of relationship, to have a child of her own so that she can now be a mother. And yet she’s taken away the role of motherhood from Tyrelle.

“She taken (our grandson’s) mother from him and actually destroyed his life because of what he saw.”

Convicted murderer Alicia Schiller has been given the green light to receive IVF treatment. Picture: Mark Stewart

Tyrelle Evertsen-Mostert was stabbed to death over $50. Picture: Alison Wynd

Mrs Gentle added Ms Evertsen-Mosert had been “a dedicated mother”.

Jim Gentle said: “This woman, who has taken his mother, now wants to be one herself, it’s not right.”

Tyrelle and Jason’s son was aged just four at the time, and in the house, when his mother was violently killed.

Alicia Schiller, then 25, was ice-addled when she jumped on Ms Evertsen-Mostert’s bed and stabbed her three times with a knife after she discovered the mum of three had taken $50 from her room to buy drugs.

Schiller was sentenced to at least 16 years in jail in 2017 after she was found guilty of murdering her Geelong housemate Ms Evertsen-Mostert in the drug-fuelled rage three years earlier.

Opposition police spokesman Brad Battin called the decision “nothing short of disgusting”.

“It is simply not appropriate that a person who is serving a sentence for murder, for the murder of a mother of three, where the four year old was present in that house, is now getting special treatment under the Allan Labor government,” he said.

“This child will be raised inside the prison system for the first five or six years. How could any department think that is okay?”

The Norlane house where Tyrelle Evertsen-Mostert was murdered. Picture: Alison Wynd

Corrections Minister Enver Erdogan said there were many questions that needed to be asked about the “appropriateness and necessary nature of this treatment”.

But Mr Erdogan said the decision was up to medical professionals and the courts.

“In terms of access to treatment, it’s a Supreme Court decision,” he said.

“But I think ethical questions about these kind of treatments, especially when someone is serving such a long sentence, I think the medical professionals need to consider those.”

Mr Erdogan urged medical staff to consider the “long term effects on the child and the welfare of the child”.

Premier Jacinta Allan said it would be “deeply inappropriate” to comment on the private health matters of individual prisoners but noted the community would hold “very firm views”.

“I have a clear understanding and appreciation that this matter will receive a very strong reaction,” she said.

“It would be, though, deeply inappropriate to participate in that commentary because it then would go into commenting on this particular case.

“As the circumstances stand today, there is a Supreme Court ruling that provides for a pathway for prisoners to access this private health treatment.”

Ms Allan stressed taxpayers would not be forced to stump up any of the staffing, security or transportation costs between the prison and IVF clinic.

Australian Lawyers Alliance Criminal Justice spokesman Greg Barns SC said inmates were “entitled” to have a child.

“We support the right of prisoners to IVF. Prisoners are entitled to have a child,” he said.

“It doesn’t matter that it involves IVF. Prisoners are regularly taken to hospitals and medical appointments for healthcare.”