Convicted murderer Alicia Schiller approved to receive IVF treatment

A convicted murderer who stabbed a Geelong mother to death over $50 has been given the green light to be released from prison for IVF treatment.

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

A convicted murderer who stabbed a mother to death over $50 has been given the green light to be released from a Victorian maximum security prison to undergo IVF treatment.

Alicia Schiller has been approved by authorities to receive the self-funded fertility treatment while housed as an inmate at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in Melbourne’s west.

It is understood that Schiller has required special escorts to attend external healthcare appointments.

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

While under the influence of ice, the 25-year-old 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. Picture Norm Oorloff

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

There are special units at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre where women can live with their children while serving sentences.

Jim Gentle, the father of Ms Evertsen-Mostert’s then partner, Jason, told the Herald Sun his son would be “very upset” to learn Schiller was planning on having a baby in prison, and receiving assistance to do so.

“I don’t think it’s the right thing, to give her a child,” he said.

The Herald Sun has been told Schiller, who is now in her mid 30s, would raise her child in the prison until it was five years old.

The child would then be placed in the care of Schiller’s mother.

Schiller has told other inmates she funded the IVF treatment by using the proceeds of a property sale.

It is believed she wants a second chance at being a mother after she was unable to raise her first-born child due to being imprisoned.

Tyrelle Evertsen-Mostert was stabbed to death.

A Department of Justice and Community Safety spokesperson said: “We cannot comment on individuals in custody and their private health information”.

A 2010 court ruling granting an inmate the right to undergo IVF is understood to have been a major factor in the current decision to allow the treatment.

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

Her barrister Debbie Mortimer SC accused the Department of Justice of breaching its duty of care and her client’s human rights by denying her client access to IVF.

Castles, a mother-of-two, was doing an 18-month stretch at minimum security Tarrengower Prison in central Victoria for welfare fraud.

Ms Evertsen-Mostert was stabbed three times at a Geelong property.

Schiller has a lengthy criminal history, dating back to when she was a teenager.

In 2008, she was charged with assault after a man was left fighting for life.

While on bail, she approached a witness and punched her in the face up to four times.

Two years later, she was jailed after she took part in a gang bashing of a 56-year-old woman who confronted her over stones thrown at her car.

In 2013, Schiller assaulted an elderly woman on a bus after the woman refused to hand over money.

She was also convic­ted on charges of shop theft, possessing proceeds of crime, being drunk in a public place, multiple counts of forging prescriptions and obtaining drugs by false representation.