A home violence sufferer and ex-partner of a disgraced former politician has spoken out in opposition to his launch, claiming it was ‘grossly unfair’.
Bankrupt property developer and former Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer, 39, walked free from jail on Friday after almost 5 years behind bars.
In 2023, whereas serving time for unrelated offences, Mehajer was convicted of a spread of home violence offences in opposition to his ex-partner.
On Friday, his sufferer lashed the parole board’s choice to permit his launch.
‘It’s so unfair, so grossly unfair that the freedoms of the offender are put above the freedoms of the victims,’ she advised 9 Information in a press release.
‘We’re left to rebuild our lives whereas they’re handed again theirs. This is not justice.’
Mehajer was sentenced to seven years and 9 months behind bars for a spread of offences together with home violence in opposition to his ex-partner.
He was convicted of assaulting the sufferer by punching her within the head in his automobile, suffocating her together with his hand over her nostril and mouth till she handed out, crushing her hand as she held her cellphone and threatening to kill her mom.
Salim Mehajer walked free on Friday. He’s pictured leaving a dentist shortly after his launch
The one-time millionaire declared chapter whereas behind bars in 2018
Mehajer (proper) rose to prominence for his 2015 wedding ceremony reported to have value $1million
His non-parole interval of three years and 9 months expired on Friday and the NSW Parole Board determined final month to grant his launch.
Mehajer’s sufferer, referred to legally as MB, stated the results for home violence survivors ‘far outweigh’ the results of offending.
‘For some victims it’s years and years of trauma, a lifetime of hiding. For others it’s rebuilding themselves financially and emotionally after being defrauded or dragged by civil court docket,’ she stated.
‘Many abusers use the authorized system as an extension of abuse. The system is ready as much as facilitate this.
‘This isn’t a private grievance. It’s a systemic failure. One which should change.’
Mehajer’s launch comes with circumstances, together with that he bear drug and alcohol testing and take part in home violence packages if directed.
He cannot contact his home violence sufferer, talk with any outlaw bike gang bikies or associates and he cannot go to the Central Coast.
His parole circumstances additionally embrace being of fine behaviour, and ongoing remedy from a non-public psychologist.
Mehajer will seem in court docket subsequent month as a part of an attraction in opposition to his DV convictions
The corrective providers commissioner had opposed his launch, citing a danger of reoffending, an ‘absence of perception’ and an absence of change in angle.
Regardless of issues referring to the surroundings he might discover himself in as soon as freed, the State Parole Authority calculated his danger of reoffending as ‘medium’.
Mehajer had been behind bars since November 2020, when he was jailed for mendacity to a court docket and has served back-to-back sentences for a number of offences.
He has beforehand claimed he was not given a good trial whereas defending himself in opposition to the home violence fees.
He is because of seem within the Courtroom of Legal Enchantment in August as a part of his attraction in opposition to his home violence convictions.
He rose to prominence following his elaborate western Sydney wedding ceremony in 2015 which closed down a avenue and reportedly value $1million.
The previous politician, who harboured aspirations of someday turning into Prime Minister, was declared bankrupt throughout a earlier jail stint in 2018.
He wasted no time on the day of his launch by stopping off at a Service NSW in Westfield Parramatta to gather a brand new driver’s licence earlier than making a go to to a beauty dentist.
Flanked by reporters, he dismissed questions on his future whereas strolling by the western Sydney buying centre.
‘I will respectfully decline to remark,’ he stated.
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