Orphaned son of murdered Tyrelle Evertsen-Mostert horrified by her killer’s bid for IVF in jail

The orphaned son of a woman violently murdered by her housemate has slammed a decision to allow her killer to leave prison for IVF, saying she’s “an animal”, with the victim’s sister describing it as “insane”.

Tobias, as a young child, with his loving mother Tyrelle Evertsen-Mostert, before she was brutally murdered at the hands of Alicia Schiller. Picture: Supplied

The orphaned son of a woman who was violently murdered by her housemate has slammed a decision to allow her killer to leave prison for IVF treatment, saying she’s “an animal”, with the victim’s sister describing it as “insane”.

Amid widespread outrage at the extraordinary move, the government has refused to detail whether taxpayers would be hit with the bill to raise a child behind bars.

The Herald Sun on Wednesday revealed that Alicia Schiller had been approved to receive the fertility treatment while housed as an inmate at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, sparking anger and fears it could see other prisoners seek IVF while serving lengthy sentences.

The decision to allow Schiller to be freed from prison to undergo the self-funded treatment was condemned by the family of her victim, mother-of three Tyrelle Evertsen-Mostert, as a “selfish act”.

Tobias Evertsen-Mostert, who was 12 when his “great mother” Tyrelle was murdered a year after he had lost his father, said: “I was an orphan, when this bitch did this, my dad died a year earlier, so all my milestones as a kid, I had nobody to celebrate them, I had no parents.”

Tobias as a youngster in the yard of the family home with his “hands down best mum”, Tyrelle. Picture: Supplied

Now 22, Tobias added: “You left three kids motherless, you animal. You stabbed your friend. I stand strongly against this (the IVF treatment).”

Tobias said it stuck in his mind that Schiller had said not long before the murder that she could have been a better mother.

He said he didn’t care if she had a child once she left prison, but it was his belief she was trying to cut short or make easier the jail time she had left to serve.

Miranda Evertsen-Mostert, Tyrelle’s sister, said: “Where’s the justice? She (Schiller) is in maximum security prison to serve her time. It’s getting hard for her and now she’s trying to get the next leg a lot easier.

“She was a mum once, but not a good one. How does her child feel? She’s been abandoned and is now going to be replaced. Another child traumatised, being brought up in jail for five years. No knowledge of large groups of people, pets, buses, shops.

“It’s a stupid idea and what about the three boys who have grown up without their mother?! They have just passed their mum’s 10th anniversary of her death. The boys are suffering traumas due to their mother’s death.

Tobias Eversten-Mosert is now 22, and “stands against” the government sanctioned IVF treatment of his mother’s killer, to have a baby in prison. Picture: Supplied

“It’s insane that this could even be thought of, let alone passed by government. Our family are the victims, and if she goes ahead with it the new baby and the other child will also be victims. I miss her (Tyrelle) every single day.”

Jim and Yvonne Gentle, the parents of Jason Gentle – who was Tyrelle’s partner when she was killed and is the father of her youngest son who was in the house during the murder – said Schiller had lost her privilege of being a mother.

“If you’re in prison and you have committed a crime so diabolical and calculated, surely you don’t have the same rights as anyone else,” Ms Gentle said.

“The law might say you have rights, the law might say it’s legal but it doesn’t make it right.

“You shouldn’t have these privileges. What’s the point in going to prison? What’s the point of punishment? She took away a life.”

Schiller was sentenced to at least 16 years in jail in 2017 after she was found guilty of murdering her housemate Tyrelle in a drug-fuelled rage in Geelong three years prior.

While under the influence of ice, the 25-year-old jumped on Tyrelle’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.

Tyrelle’s four-year-old son was inside the home when she was violently killed.

Ms Gentle said the decision could set a precedent for other inmates.

Jim and Yvonne Gentle and son Jason Gentle who was the father of the young boy that was in the house when Tyrelle was killed. Picture: David Caird

“Are there going to be other women in prison wanting to have babies? There are better places to have babies. She can be a mother when she gets out. She doesn’t have to be a mother in prison.

“What about the child? Did she consider the child? I think it’s a selfish act to bring a child up in prison,” she said.

On Wednesday, the government insisted taxpayers would not be forced to stump up any of the staffing, security or transportation costs between the prison and the external IVF clinic.

But they refused to say if the treatment was successful, how much it would cost to care for the child in the specialist parent ward or if taxpayers would bear the costs.

The Herald Sun has been told Schiller, now in her mid 30s, would raise her child in the prison until it was five. The child would then be placed in the care of Schiller’s mother.

The government on Wednesday attempted to deflect responsibility, saying it was a court decision to allow Schiller to undergo treatment.

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

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

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

Alicia Schiller enters court in 2016. Picture: Mark Stewart

Opposition police spokesman Brad Battin said the decision was “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 … is now getting special treatment under the Allan Labor government,” he said.

Schiller has told other inmates she is funding the IVF treatment with the proceeds of a property sale.

Premier Jacinta Allan said it would be “deeply inappropriate” to comment on the private health matters of individual prisoners, acknowledging it was “particularly unique matter”.

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