Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan, a former immigration detainee, has been accused of violently assaulting a couple during a home invasion in Perth.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Majid had his ankle monitor removed following advice from the Albanese government’s board of experts despite being accused of curfew breaches and other state offences.
Anthony Albanese, the Prime Minister, said he wanted the government to lock up the worst offenders who were released after last year’s landmark High Court decision that indefinite detention was unlawful.
Clare O’Neil, the Home Affairs Minister, had earlier said she was powerless to intervene in bail applications for state-based legal breaches after it was revealed a former detainee accused of the Perth assault, Majid, had faced court multiple times this year for trespass and driving offences before the allr=eged attack on April 16.
Majid is one of three men accused of an attack on Ninette and Philip Simons at their home in Girrawheen after allegedly posing as police officers and saying they had a warrant to search the house.
Majid is one of over 150 people released from immigration detention after the High Court outlawed the Commonwealth’s ability to detain people it hoped to deport indefinitely. He had previously been jailed for drug supply.
The High Court ruling required the government to create new laws, which placed most of the detainees under strict conditions, including curfews and electronic monitoring.
Records showed Majid was fitted with an ankle monitor when he was charged with multiple curfew breaches in February. However, it was decided that he was no longer required to wear one.
