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The reason why an ex-bikie, who killed his former partner and then himself, had been earlier paroled from prison has been revealed.
Luke Noormets, who was sentenced to seven years in jail for torturing a drug dealer, wasn’t considered to have a violent history.
Noormets shot his former partner Georgia Lyall, 32, in the head before he turned the gun on himself on Thursday in Perth.
The murder-suicide was carried out just over a year after the 33-year-old was granted parole from prison.
“Some people are just incredibly evil,” barrister Tom Percy KC said.
“They are devious, they are manipulative.”
Noormets was released back into the community last June.
The Prisoners Review Board this morning revealed its reasons for the decision and said his release would present an acceptable risk to community safety due to him having “no previous history of violence”.
That is despite the reason he was locked up in the first place: a seven-year sentence for torture after he was convicted of kidnapping a drug dealer in 2017.
Noormets took the dealer to a Bayswater warehouse and subjected him to 13 hours of horror.
The man was hog-tied, doused in petrol, set on fire and waterboarded.
According to the Prisoners Review Board, the former Rebel was fit for release on a raft of conditions including mandatory counselling, staying away from alcohol, random drug testing, and avoiding other bikies.
“I can’t see that there is any way that they could have detected that the guy was a homicidal maniac,” Percy said.
The opposition has called for an urgent review of the board’s operations.
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