A VIOLENT offender who smashed his partner to death with a house brick, and left his daughter with severe brain damage and vision loss, has had restrictions on his movements relaxed.
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John Raymond Holschier, who was born and raised in Deniliquin, attacked the woman with a brick at Chatswood on September 25, 1989.
He killed her and badly injured his young daughter, who was 13 months old at the time, during a heated argument.
Holschier was sentenced to life in jail for murder and malicious infliction of grievous bodily harm, but the term was later lowered to a 17-year non-parole period with a 25-year maximum.
He met a new partner and fathered two children while in custody, and the pair married in 2001.
Holschier, now 51, was released on parole in December 2008 but was again jailed after visiting his wife at her home in Deniliquin.
He was again arrested in May 2010, leading to intervention orders, followed by further intervention orders in November 2010.
He has continued to commit other offences in recent years and has been in and out of custody.
Holschier has used speed on parole, been charged with assaulting and intimidating his wife, and breached the intervention orders.
Court orders, which the government recently applied to extend, have closely restricted his movements.
Holschier's partner said she wanted to rekindle the relationship and planned to move with him to Albury or Wagga if he was denied approval to live in Deniliquin.
Judge Stephen Campbell declined to extend the restrictions on Monday.
He found that Holschier wasn't an unacceptable risk of committing serious offences if the extended supervision order lapsed.
"I am not satisfied to the requisite high degree of probability that there is a real or substantial chance of Mr Holschier committing a further serious violence offence if he is not kept under supervision," Justice Campbell told the NSW Supreme Court.
The supervision order will expire on Friday, having been enforced since December 2014.
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