Brother of man who killed both his parents holds ‘significant concerns’ over his release

THE brother of a man who stabbed his parents to death in Coconut Grove has ‘significant concerns’ over his release, a court has heard

A courtroom sketch of Thomas Walter Bradley, who pleaded not guilty to murdering his parents in 2012.

A MAN who stabbed his parents to death in Coconut Grove will remain under custodial supervision while the conditions of his proposed release are hammered out to address the “significant concerns” of his surviving brother.

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Thomas Walter Bradley, 48, pleaded not guilty to murdering Bill and Hilary Bradley due to mental impairment in 2012 and was given a 25-year custodial supervision order.

Two psychiatrists have now recommended he be released on a non-custodial supervision order but Crown prosecutor Matt Nathan SC told the court he had been liaising with Bradley’s brother in Europe and wanted more details of the proposed supervision plan.

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“The concern that I have your honour is that the details in terms of the extent of the supervision, how that might be managed if there was going to be any, I suppose, regression in the progress of the supervised person how that would in fact be handled,” he said.

“There’s simply no meat on the plan, it’s quite a general statement.”

Mr Nathan said Bradley’s brother had “raised some quite significant concerns” about his release which were difficult to address “without knowing how these issues might be both considered and dealt with”.

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“It would greatly assist our capacity to speak with the next of kin and hopefully allay some of those concerns,” he said.

“It may not but it would at least go some way in terms of communicating to the next of kin that it’s not a situation of him simply walking away from court with no structure in place.”

In 2012, then Chief Justice Trevor Riley found Bradley suffered from a “chronic delusional disorder” causing him to believe his parents wanted him to kill them because their religion prevented them from doing it themselves.

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He will return to court in May and remains under custodial supervision.