Alicia Schiller has withdrawn her application to leave jail to undergo IVF treatment

Brutal killer Alicia Schiller has ditched her plans to have a baby behind bars after she was given the green light to leave maximum security prison for fertility treatment.

A brutal killer has abandoned her plans to undergo IVF after a huge community backlash over her bid to have a baby behind bars.

Convicted murderer Alicia Schiller, who stabbed a mother of three to death over $50, had been given the green light to be released from a maximum-security prison for the fertility treatment, the Herald Sun last week revealed.

The revelation prompted widespread outrage that such a callous killer could win the privilege amid concerns for the wellbeing of the future child who would have to be raised behind bars for its first five years.

Questions were also raised about the huge cost to taxpayers of the child’s care in prison, despite the woman having said she would use a windfall from a property sale to pay for the treatment and the expense of being escorted to treatment sessions.

Alicia Schiller stabbed a mother of three to death over $50.

Tobias Evertsen-Mostert, who was 12 when Schiller killed his 25-year-old mother Tyrelle a year after he had lost his father, said Schiller was “an animal”.

The Allan government pledged to review the situation and laws, but Labor MPs thwarted an attempt by the Coalition to introduce a bill banning prisoners from having IVF.

On Friday, the Herald Sun revealed that Schiller’s mother – who the murderer had told authorities would raise the child once it reached five and had to live in the community – did not want to take care of it.

And on Saturday, the paper reported that both Melbourne IVF and Monash IVF would refuse to provide the treatment to Schiller, while Victoria’s public fertility service would also decline to treat her.

Melbourne IVF and Monash IVF said they would refuse to provide the treatment to Schiller. Picture: Mark Stewart

Schiller, who is in her 30s, faced being forced to have the treatment at a boutique clinic.

But the Herald Sun can now reveal that the killer, who was sentenced in 2017 to 16 years in jail for the murder of housemate Ms Evertsen-Mostert three years prior, will not go ahead with her baby plan.

“She has withdrawn her application,” a source said.

Despite this, it is understood under current laws she could still be approved for treatment if she changed her mind and decided to go ahead again.

Reacting to the news that his mother’s killer was ditching her baby bid, Tobias said on Tuesday night he would “sleep a bit easier”.

“It’s good, for now, I just hope she doesn’t try again,” he said.

Tobias added that while the door remained legally open for prisoners to have IVF treatment while serving sentences, there was the chance that other jailbirds could opt for it.

“Why can’t the government just put a stop to it?” he asked.

“It has the power. It’s not just my family I am thinking about in saying that, it’s other families that may have to go through the same pain that we have. If you’ve done the crime you should be doing the time, regardless of what it is.”

A Supreme Court ruling from 2010 granting an inmate the right to undergo IVF is understood to have been a major factor in the initial Justice Department decision to allow Schiller to leave Dame Phyllis Frost Centre to receive treatment.

In that case, Kimberley Castles, 45, successfully argued she should be allowed to continue her fertility treatment, which she was getting prior to being jailed.

Another source said: “The Minister’s office does not have a role in approving individual healthcare referrals and is not made aware of individual medical information.

“The Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act provides that fertility providers can refuse treatment if they reasonably believe a child born as a result of treatment would be at risk of abuse or neglect.”

Ms Evertsen-Mostert’s mother Jo last week described the decision to approve Schiller’s IVF as ludicrous and ­disgusting.