The state government has moved to renew an extended supervision order on notorious killer John Raymond Holschier.
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The 50-year-old received a life sentence in 1991 for murdering his partner and inflicting grievous bodily harm on their 13-month-old daughter with a brick at their home in Chatswood.
In 1998, his life sentence was redetermined as 25 years with a 17-year non-parole period.
Holschier was released on parole in September, 2014 and based himself in Wagga shortly thereafter.
Then, three months later, he was declared a high-risk offender by the Supreme Court on an application by the state government and subjected to a three-year extended supervision order that restricts his freedom.
Last week in the Supreme Court, the state moved to extend that supervision order for another year on the grounds that Holschier has a history of breaking its conditions.
He was jailed for seven months in 2016 for assaulting his wife, five months in 2017 after he failed to wear his electronic monitoring equipment, and one month this May for breaching a good behaviour bond issued after he contravened an AVO.
Holschier was disciplined in jail in 2016 when he refused to provide a urine sample, and got another seven months’ jail this year when he refused a drug test.
“The defendant also has a poor history of compliance with the conditions of his extended supervision order,” Justice Clifton Hoeben summarised.
A three-year supervision order was taken out on Holschier in December 2014, but it was suspended following his subsequent convictions, and a revised expiry date of January 13, 2019 was recommended.
With that date fast approaching, the state lodged an application with the court to extend his supervision for another 12 months.
“On April 3, 2018, two forensic psychologists … recommended no further application be made because the improvements in the defendant’s presentation suggested that a further application would be unsuccessful,” Justice Hoeben said.
“These reports were prepared before the defendant’s most recent offence of failing to comply with the ESO by refusing to provide a drug sample.”
Justice Hoeben ordered that two independent psychiatrists conduct further examinations of Holschier before a decision regarding his supervision order is made.
He will remain on an interim supervision order until he returns to court on February 8.
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