307:(VCAT) and sought copies of prison management and operation manuals. His request was refused, but he was granted access to limited information and restricted to viewing such information while within the prison library. This decision was widely criticised by academics and lawyers as promoting a lack of administrative transparency in the prison system and creating a situation where the rules that prisoners are supposed to abide by are concealed from them.
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that the High Court had previously upheld. The High Court held that a prisoner had no right to be released on parole and the decision was an exercise of the executive power. The punishment imposed by the court was the life sentence and while the legislation removed any practical hope
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On 23 May 2019, Minogue was charged with 38 offences including abduction by force and aggravated rape. The charges related to two alleged offences which occurred on 22 November 1985 and 26 March 1986, the day before the
Russell Street bombing. Charged with the same offences was Peter Komiazyk (aka
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In 2017, Minogue sought to challenge the validity of the new legislation. On 20 June 2018, the High Court unanimously held that the section did not apply to
Minogue because he was not sentenced on the basis that the prisoner knew, or was reckless as to whether, the person murdered was a police
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Peter Reed) who was also involved with the
Russell St bombing. Police alleged that a third man, Stanley Taylor, participated in the alleged rape in March 1986. Taylor, the instigator of the bombing, died in prison in 2016. A fourth man is yet to be identified.
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Minogue personally could not be granted parole unless the board is satisfied that he is in imminent danger of dying or is seriously incapacitated. This was based on provisions in relation to
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Reflection on deaths in and out of Custody', Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order, Vol 33, No.4, 2006, 107–117.
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At about 11.30 am on 22 July 1988, in the maximum security industry yard, Craig
Minogue, then 26, beat Alex Tskamakis, 40, to death with a pillow case loaded with 5 kg gym weights.
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