The immigration minister, Andrew Giles, had released one murderer and one person convicted of “attempt or solicit murder” into community detention even before the high court ruled that indefinite immigration detention was unlawful.
In June Guardian Australia revealed that 25 of the then 153 people affected by the high court’s ruling had already been released into community detention by ministerial discretion but Giles refused to say if he was responsible for the release of those with the worst offending.
