A whistleblower at a renowned hospital for the criminally ill claims that some of Australia’s most dangerous monsters are apparently hiring sex workers, utilising dating websites, and tormenting their victims while purportedly locked-up.
According to the whistleblower, sex workers cater to patients at Thomas Embling Hospital both on and off-site, and they have access to mobile phones when they are often released on days off.
The astounding accusations come in the wake of widespread outrage over alleged intentions to release murderer Henry Hammond on supervised day release barely a year after he was committed to a mental institution for 25 years.
Courtney Herron, a Melbourne resident, was fatally struck by Hammond at a park in May 2019. The incident horrified the country.
In response to the whistleblower’s allegations, a representative for Forensicare, the government organisation in charge of running the hospital northeast of Melbourne’s central business district, denied that sex workers were accessing the facility.
The entrance of Thomas Embling Hospital is guarded, and all visitors must have permission before entering. The hospital issued a statement stating that it was not authorised to use the professional services of sex workers.
But the reliable source revealed to Daily Mail Australia that Thomas Embling’s Fairfield facility patients were known to bring sex workers into a temporary “visitor room” for unlawful sex encounters.
Furthermore, the source said that Thomas Embling management had even thought of soliciting bids for a “conjugale chamber.”
The whistleblower said that when they realised it may have garnered attention, they dropped that idea.
Additionally, it was claimed that clients were paying sex workers using money from the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Forensicare has refuted these claims, saying that its employees uphold the greatest ethical and professional standards when it comes to their behaviour, customer service, and treatment of coworkers and customers. We deny any claims that staff members have mistreated patients, it said.
The Forensic Leave Panel, a private tribunal comprised of a judge, the hospital’s head psychiatrist, and a second independent psychiatrist, frequently permits criminally insane people to be released back into society, according to Daily Mail Australia.
In 2020, the most recent year for which figures are publicly available, the panel received 197 “off-ground” patient petitions, approving a staggering 97% of them.
For a variety of before- and after-dark activities, known murderers are given leave. Patients are allowed to take leave after 9 p.m. three times a week.
The administration of Thomas Embling and Daniel Andrews, according to John Herron, Courtney Herron’s father, just had no care for the safety of victims or women in general.
‘Even more worrisome, these murders and psychopaths eased into society quickly, more quickly than any known therapy for psychosis or schizophrenia, implying they must not have originally been suffering from these disorders – unless Thomas Embling has found a miracle cure,’ he claimed.
This week, it was reported by Daily Mail Australia that triple-murderer Peko Lakovski, who also killed two other patients following a day release fishing excursion, was permitted to leave Thomas Embling.
In 2002, Lakovski was committed to Thomas Embling after murdering his wife and severely hurting his father-in-law.
He attacked again in 2009, using a carving knife to murder fellow patients Raymond Splatt, 54, and Paul Notas, 36.
Lakovski had 738 occasions of unescorted leave while participating in a pre-release programme, it was subsequently discovered.
Lakovski was permitted to return to the streets on covert supervised visits despite being deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial once again and receiving a new 25-year supervision order.
The Daily Mail Australia is aware of at least one vicious murderer who was released from prison on supervised day release after being declared not guilty of murder due to mental disability a little over a year ago.
A who’s who of Victoria’s most violent men have been discharged from mental hospitals throughout the years, either on supervised day outings, unsupervised vacations, or after perpetrating some of the state’s most heinous crimes.
A paedophile witch, a guy who ate pieces of his victim, and infamous murderer Sean Christian Price are examples of well-known villains.
Former Supreme Court Justice Philip Cummins launched a lengthy tirade against media outlets in 2014 for referring to patients who were permitted to roam free in the community as “crazed murderers.”
Justice Cummins, who passed away in 2019 at the age of 79, stood up for the rights of murderous psychopaths.
There is a notion in certain parts of the population that someone who is declared not guilty due to mental disability is “free to wander the streets” and has “got away with it.” This is not true,” he wrote at the time.
Their mental damage requires therapy, which might take years. They may never be freed from surveillance in certain circumstances.
Patients spend an average of around eight years in Victorian mental institutions, according to statistics from the most recent Forensic Leave Panel annual report.
Although the study said that the longest duration a person had been in detention was 31 years in 2020, it did not specify how little time any individual had been there.
Thomas Embling doctors are open about their belief that sending murderers back into society is in the best interests of their recovery while testifying before Victorian courts.
The many suspects in Victoria’s murder cases are aware of this fact.
Multiple accused women’s murderers are now seeking to persuade the Supreme Court of Victoria that they are mentally incompetent to stand trial.
They include Prabhal Sharma, who police claim slaughtered his wife and kid, and Luay Nader Sako, who is suspected of killing Celeste Manno.
The court heard James Gargasoulas imagined he would have access to women and be given early release once inside Thomas Embling when he faced a competence to stand trial jury for his homicidal 2017 rampage that murdered six people.
According to psychologist Michael Daffern, Gargasoulas “told me that he believed he could be able to access the internet, there might be access to a mobile telephone,” in testimony before the court.
He was also intrigued by the possibility of meeting women at Thomas Embling Hospital.
Gargasoulas had a “unrealistic notion” that he would be freed from detention after serving five years at Thomas Embling, according to forensics consultant psychiatrist Andrew Carroll, who has found several murderers mentally unfit for trial.
The mass murderer was really only three years away.