<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The sister of one of the Snowtown murder victims has slammed the decision to release one of the killers, James Vlassakis, as an insult.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Karen Davies, whose brother Ray was one of the eleven victims of the Snowtown murders, has condemned the decision. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Where's (my brother's) freedom... he's never going to have that ever again," she said. </span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/south-australia-algal-bloom-leaves-small-fishing-businesses-making-as-little-as-15-a-day/705c3137-2afd-4f52-9aa2-c0cafdd64ccb" rel="" target="" title=""><strong><span>Algal bloom leaves small fishing businesses making as little as $15 a day</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"(Vlassakis) is going to have the freedom to see his family, to see his loved ones, to make friends.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I know to them and in their eyes he might have been a model prisoner when he was in there but it's still the fact he took four lives."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Vlassakis is the youngest of the Snowtown killers and was given a 26-year non-parole period in exchange for his assistance in convicting his stepfather, John Bunting, and Robert Wagner.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/victim-reaction-james-vlassakis-parole-snowtown-killings/cad72002-5d3b-4537-bee5-b6b2082f8e83" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In approving his release on Tuesday, the parole board chair described the now 45-year-old as "well-behaved" and someone who doesn't pose a risk to the community. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The attorney-general, victims' rights commissioner, and police commissioner have been given 60 days to launch a review of the parole board's decision. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/finance/anz-surprise-interest-rate-hike/9f2eab99-565e-4fba-8e3e-c8305581fc2b"><strong><span>Big four bank's shock rate hike ahead of expected RBA cut</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We will be considering the formal reasons and the exact conditions that the parole board has imposed," Attorney-General Kyam Maher said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We haven't received those yet."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police Commissioner Grant Stevens of South Australia Police confirmed that the matter is under scrutiny. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"That's being reviewed by our major crime investigation branch who will provide me advice," he said. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I'm not personally aware and I understand some people have done some research and haven't been able to find a person having been convicted of these offences would have been subject to release."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>If there is no successful review, Vlassakis will next be moved to a pre-release centre where he will start to re-enter society and can even get a job. But even once he's free, he'll be monitored for the rest of his life.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><span>This article was produced with the assistance of</span></em><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/technology/9express/16480c33-636a-461f-9c4f-d0e2522c722a"><em><span>9ExPress</span></em></a><em><span>.</span></em></div></div>
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