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Attorney-general requests review into Snowtown killer release
South Australia's Attorney-General has requested a legal review to challenge the parole board's decision to release Vlassakis after 26 years in prison.
- According to the ABC, South Australia's Attorney-General Kyam Maher has formally requested a review of the South Australian Parole Board's decision to release James Vlassakis, with a directions hearing expected in the coming weeks.
- Vlassakis pleaded guilty to four murders and received a life sentence with a 26-year non-parole period, after which the Parole Board approved his release due to his cooperation.
- Remains recovered in May 1999 showed victims were dismembered, placed in barrels filled with hydrochloric acid, and lured to secluded locations before murder in Snowtown, South Australia.
- Parole Administrative Review Commissioner Michael David KC confirmed an appeal has been lodged by Attorney-General Kyam Maher, with a directions hearing to outline next steps in the coming weeks.
- Vlassakis, now in his mid-40s, was the youngest of the perpetrators and was 19 when jailed; photographs remain suppressed due to his testimony against John Bunting, described as the ringleader, and Robert Wagner, co-accused.
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