Daniel Paul Heazlewood will be released from jail as early as November 23, only 29 months after being sentenced to eight years’ jail for the manslaughter of his mother Linda Sidon.

Heazlewood told friends he hated his mother who was “a waste of space… a bogan… an ugly bitch”, his 2018 sentencing hearing in Brisbane Supreme Court heard.

The court was told that Heazlewood was a steroid-taking gym junkie who killed the slightly built Ms Sidon in their Housing Commission home during a struggle.

Two days later, he realised she was dead and bought a shovel and a bag of lime at a hardware store, placed her body in the boot of his car and drove 30km to Numinbah Valley where he buried her in a shallow grave.

He did not confess to police until 2015, after a listening device planted in his car recorded him saying: “She just pushed me too far one day… ha... so I killed her. Gotta remember where I put the bitch.”

He had earlier denied any involvement, telling police: ‘“I do remember fairly 100 per cent… not killing anybody that year.”

The “no body, no parole” laws were passed in August 2018, two months after Heazlewood was jailed for his mother’s manslaughter and interfering with her corpse.

He also received an 11-and-a-half-year sentence for drug and driving offences, but with time previously served was eligible for parole in July this year

In a decision handed down last week, the Parole Board admitted that it wrestled with the “no body, no parole” legislation in deciding whether to set Heazlewood free.

The board noted that Heazlewood’s failure to co-operate with police for six years after his mother’s killing made it impossible to recover her remains and he had previously told “a litany of egregious lies”.

But the board found Heazlewood did eventually co-operate, taking part in a re-enactment and leading police to where he believed he had buried the body.

“I’m not doing all this… because of ‘no body, no parole’,” Heazlewood told police in an interview published as part of the Parole Board decision.

“I did all this (confessed) because… well, because people need to know what happened.”

Speaking from her New Zealand home, Ms Sidon’s sister Pam McLaren said the family was furious her nephew was being released and the laws were “a load of crap”.

“It’s not worth the paper it’s written on,” she said.

“The legislation talks about timeliness of co-operation, but he didn’t open his mouth for six years.”

Ms McLaren alleged Heazlewood had shown no remorse and was still a risk to society.