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Tuesday, July 13, 2021

OUTBACK SERIAL KILLER ON THE LOOSE IN SYDNEY

            Serial killer Reginald Arthurell, now known as Regina Kaye, has moved from Sydney retirement home. As an Outback Serial Killer is now on the loose, I will post two news sources before giving my comments.

  

Regina Arthurell’s parole conditions do not prevent her from living as a woman. Credit: 7NEWS

Serial killer Reginald Arthurell, now known as Regina Kaye, moved from Sydney retirement home

Sarina Andaloro and Elizabeth Daoud

7NEWS

Published: Friday, 7 May 2021 4:57 pm AEST

Serial killer moved from Sydney retirement home

A notorious serial killer has been moved out of her Western Sydney home after a push to have her removed by the local community.

Reginald Arthurell, who is responsible for the deaths of three people, including his fiance, was released on parole in November.

Arthurell, 74, came out as transgender while behind bars and now goes by the name of Regina Kaye.

Kaye has been living in Yagoona retirement home since her release from prison.

But on Friday afternoon, the 74-year-old was removed from the village by caseworkers.

Regina Arthurell’s parole conditions do not prevent her from living as a woman.

She was offered a halfway house at Malabar, in Sydney’s south east, but chose not to live there.

Canterbury Bankstown Mayor Khal Asfour earlier expressed he didn’t want Kaye living in his city, describing the killer as a “grub”.

“Not welcome in my city!,” As four wrote on Facebook.

“I am outraged that convicted serial killer Regina Kaye, formerly known as Reginald Kenneth Arthurell has been allowed to live in our city under a cloud of secrecy.

“Residents of the retirement facility at Yagoona where Kaye is now staying should have been told of the killer’s presence.

“Our city and community deserve better and the authorities must explain how they plan to stop this person from reoffending.”

Most of Kaye’s neighbours had no idea who she was until they saw photos of her circulating in the media.

One neighbour said she was “relieved” that Kaye had been moved.

Regina was removed from the retirement village on Friday.

“I’m glad the media got onto where he lived, with us,” one neighbour told 7NEWS, adding she was “disgusted” no one had told her.

“I can’t believe the parole board put him here.”

In 1997, Kaye fatally bashed her fiance Venet Mulhall in her Coonabarabran home in with a piece of wood.

She was released on parole in November after spending 24 years in prison for murder.

Arthurell had already killed two people when he met Venet Mulhall.

Aged 28, he killed his stepfather, Thomas Thornton, with a carving knife.

Several years later he and another man robbed and killed 19-year-old Ross Browning.

Kaye’s parole ends on May 24, but an Interim Supervision Order taken out by the NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman will immediately come into force.

INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=116315430584455&id=101692122046786

https://7news.com.au/news/sydney/serial-killer-reginald-arthurell-now-known-as-regina-kaye-moved-from-sydney-retirement-home-c-2782649

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Regina and then-fiance Venet Mulhall. Credit: 7NEWS


Outback serial killer could ‘go bush’ again, judge warns

JULY 5, 2021 3:37PM

Candace Sutton

news.com.au

Outback serial killer Regina Kaye Arthurell, who a court heard is “at risk of killing again”, could “go bush” again, a judge has warned.

Justice Richard Button warned that Arthurell – who committed three separate killings in the outback, including one murder while she was still “on the run”, wanted to return to the countryside.

When she was known as Reginald Kenneth Arthurell, the now 75-year-old offender was also a person of interest in a fourth outback killing, the unsolved 1971 murder of Catherine Page, 82, in Coonamble.

“ (Arthurell) did feel much more comfortable living in the country, worked for RM Williams and enjoyed rodeo riding,” Justice Button said.

“A person can go to Central Station and jump on a long distance train to many different parts of NSW.

“An elderly person can pick up a steak knife.”

But Arthurell’s lawyer, David Barrow, told a NSW Supreme Court hearing before Justice Button that Arthurell was too old or incapacitated to go bush.

He also said the defendant was unsteady on her feet, had a pronounced tremor, and was constantly getting lost even while living in the city.

He said when Arthurell had been on the run, she was then aged 48.

“She … is now 75. Her capacity to do anything to avoid the authorities is so small as to almost be ridiculous,” he said.

“She has very limited eyesight, very limited hearing and difficulty with mobility … and no connections with anyone.”

He said the idea of Arthurell going bush was “a very unlikely prospect” and the defendant “could live where she is required to live”.

He described a requirement for Arthurell to wear an electronic monitoring anklet as onerous.

“It puts a person in a complete straitjacket. It’s obviously stressful, highly intrusive,” Mr Barrow said.

The court heard earlier that Arthurell is at risk of committing future violence and killing again, but forgets to charge her electronic anklet and has a tremor which makes it difficult plugging it in.

The NSW Supreme Court also heard that the triple killer, who is “undergoing a transition to her preferred gender, female” had cognitive decline.

This was disputed by Crown prosecutor Katrina Curry, who told the court a 2020 aged care assessment had deemed Arthurell “independent with all activities of daily living”.

She said Arthurell had a history of “irritability and recklessness and a reckless disregard” and was “still displaying some of those traits” which could lead to aggression and violence.

A psychiatrist told the court that supervision restrictions on Arthurell “could escalate her level of frustration so that she behaves in a violent manner”.

Forensic psychologist Ivanka Manoski told a supervision hearing before Justice Richard Button that Arthurell posed a moderate or medium risk of “committing a further serious violence offence (that) could involve serious violence that is fatal”.

Arthurell’s biggest risk factors for committing violence were “poor emotional regulation, alcohol abuse and isolation”, the court heard.

The State of NSW is applying for a three-year Extended Supervision Order (ESO) over Ms Arthurell, who the court heard had spent 37 years in prison for one murder and two manslaughter convictions.

The defendant was previously known as Reginald Kenneth Arthurell when she offended in Queensland and the Northern Territory, before murdering her fiancee Venet Mulhall, who was bashed to death with a piece of wood in 1995.

Forensic psychiatrist Dr Yolisha Singh told the court that a proposed condition that significant changes to her appearance be reported “might prove quite onerous”.

Dr Singh said a gender transition involved “all sorts of different changes, taking deportment classes to change the way to walk, elocution classes, in addition to changing physical changes in hairstyle or wigs or attire”.

“Ms Arthurell said to me how distressed she was that she was photographed by the media in different wigs.”

Dr Singh said she had found Arthurell to be “very unsteady on her feet” and that she “mobilised very slowly”.

The psychiatrists said she had noticed when asking the offender to sign a consent form, Arthurell had “a marked tremor” and had to use her other hand to still the signing hand.

The doctor said Arthurell had “hearing and visual impairments” and there was a “concern about her remembering to charge the electronic monitoring equipment”.

“In addition, I think her tremor makes that process quite difficult, quite frustrating,” Dr Singh said, marking a warning note that this could lead to violence.

“Conditions that are hostile or unnecessarily restrictive … could escalate her level of frustration so that she behaves in a violent manner or acts aggressively to return to custody where she has felt a sense of belonging or acceptance,” Dr Singh said.

Justice Button said on Monday afternoon he would reserve his decision on whether to impose an ESO until Tuesday.

The ESO would take over from an Interim Supervision Order (ISO) imposed in April, which expires on July 19.

Arthurell’s full sentence and supervision on parole ended on May 24, but NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman took out the ISO which came into force on that day.

This meant Arthurell was still required to wear a tracking anklet and be subject to restrictions over changing his appearance.

Her 16 parole conditions until May 24 had not prevented a change of appearance, but the ISO did include a condition about reporting significant changes in her physical appearance.

Photos posted by the violent outback killer on the internet showed her dressed in a series of women’s wigs posing for the camera.

The photos were allegedly posted on a transgender community friendship page by Arthurell, who now goes by the name of Regina Kaye.

She posed in three different coloured wigs, including one in a dark brown bob which she used as her signature image with the words, “Hi, I’m Regina”.

Since his prison release, Arthurell has been investigated for allegedly making threats against his female victim’s family.

NSW Police were investigating a claim Arthurell had vowed to “take out” the family of his last victim, Venet Raylee Mulhall.

Corrective Services NSW referred police to an allegation by a concerned transgender community member that Arthurell allegedly contacted via the Facebook page.

He had allegedly said he would act against the family and Corrective Services once his parole had ended and he was no longer wearing a tracking anklet.

Corrective services said it was “aware that an associate of a 74-year-old parolee has contacted the registered victim of the offender (and) … immediately referred” the matter to NSW Police.

Arthurell was released on parole last November after serving 24 years in prison for bludgeoning Venet Mulhall, then his fiancee, to death in 1997 with a piece of wood.

Arthurell, a former rodeo worker, was an outback drifter when he committed his first two killings four decades ago.

The tall, powerful, self styled “cowboy” had two manslaughter convictions when he met vulnerable and devoutly religious Venet Raylee Mulhall in the 1980s.

When Arthurell was 28, he killed his stepfather, Thomas Thornton, 49, with a carving knife and then went on the run.

Working at rodeos in Queensland and the Northern Territory, Arthurell met another man and together in 1981 they robbed and killed 19-year-old sailor, Ross Browning.

Browning’s mutilated body was found in scrub just 35km east of Tennant Creek.

NT Police described the killing as “the most vicious” they had investigated, but two murder trials were aborted and both men pleaded guilty to reduced charges of manslaughter.

Ms Mulhall started writing to Arthurell in 1986 when he was serving time in Darwin Correctional Centre for Browning’s killing.

A Prison Fellowship Christian, Ms Mulhall was five years older than Arthurell and visited him in prison, where he was baptised and convinced her – and authorities – he had found God and reformed.

Ms Mulhall had suffered a broken marriage and had been left with her face permanently paralysed and disfigured by an operation to remove a tumour next to her brain.

Arthurell, who had proposed to Ms Mulhall, was released into the care of his new fiancee in April 1991.

He was still on parole in February 1997 when he murdered her at the Coonabarabran home in central western NSW that Ms Mulhall had bought to forge their new life together.

Her brother, Paul Quinn, found Ms Mulhall’s decomposing body at the home.

Inside, he discovered – on his sister’s camera – images of Arthurell, who had fled in Ms Mulhall’s car, wearing his fiancee’s clothing.

Arthurell’s full sentence for murdering Ms Mulhall expired on May 24.

Paul Quinn said Arthurell should have been sentenced to life without parole.

“These people commit crimes that are so outrageous that they exclude themselves from society,” Mr Quinn told 2GB.

“The first thing the judge should actually consider is how do you reintegrate these people back into society.

“You can’t. They should stay in prison for the rest of their life.”

INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=137697925112872&id=101692122046786

https://www.news.com.au/national/courts-law/serial-killer-at-risk-of-killing-again-has-tremor-and-forgets-to-charge-monitoring-anklet/news-story/790321c8a58c98af42bca2b2696b25f9

Barry Gordon Hadlow

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.westernstarnews.com.au/news/stacey-ann-tracys-family-speaks-up-at-last/2739954/]

http://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-carbon-copy-killer-devout-christian.html


MY COMMENTS:

            Regina Arthurell’s case was similar to Barry HadlowLenny Keith Lawson and Keith Burley, Jr., they were all brilliant actors to fool the parole board to release them, by acting as model prisoners.

Ms Mulhall started writing to Arthurell in 1986 when he was serving time in Darwin Correctional Centre for Browning’s killing.

A Prison Fellowship Christian, Ms Mulhall was five years older than Arthurell and visited him in prison, where he was baptised and convinced her – and authorities – he had found God and reformed.

Ms Mulhall had suffered a broken marriage and had been left with her face permanently paralysed and disfigured by an operation to remove a tumour next to her brain.

Arthurell, who had proposed to Ms Mulhall, was released into the care of his new fiancee in April 1991.

He was still on parole in February 1997 when he murdered her at the Coonabarabran home in central western NSW that Ms Mulhall had bought to forge their new life together.

            It proves the point that any country that abolishes the death penalty, will abolish life sentences next. The next time, if any Australian dares to lecture your country on death penalty and life imprisonment. Tell them about this case. Do not be surprise if Arthurell might reoffend again like Albert Flick, a 77-year-old man previously deemed "too old to be a threat" was sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing a woman in front of her children, four decades after he was convicted of a nearly identical crime. This is another great example of why Prisoner Rights Activists will remain silent as it is too extremely embarrassing for them to talk about recidivist killers.

[https://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2019/08/77-year-old-albert-flick-murdered-again.html]

OTHER LINKS:

Domestic Violence {Australia}:

Devonport court: Murder accused faces court after young mum’s death

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2013175592167135&id=1299628893521812

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9695101/Mum-young-woman-23-allegedly-stabbed-death-promises-care-six-year-old-daughter.html

Husband who murdered wife in Nollamara jailed for at least 21 years after claiming mental illness

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2006848442799850&id=1299628893521812

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-07/harold-carter-jailed-for-stabbing-murder-of-wife-in-nollamara/100261962

Domestic Violence {Canada}:

Nicole Porciello murder: Man stabbed ex 47 times, filmed her bleeding to death

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2005132182971476&id=1299628893521812

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/nicole-porciello-murder-man-stabbed-ex-47-times-filmed-her-bleeding-to-death/news-story/044b46f52b657a32bd4f838cf28db6a5

 

Friday, November 20, 2020

ZLATKO SIKORSKY DIES IN PRISON AFTER JAIL ASSAULT (NOVEMBER 20, 2020)

                  Zlatko Sikorsky accused of torturing and murdering his teenage girlfriend has died after being attacked in jail. Good that there is one last paedophile on earth now

 

Sikorsky is brutally bashed by a fellow inmate at Brisbane's Wolston Correctional Centre.


Zlatko Sikorsky, accused 'body in a barrel' murderer, dies in hospital after prison brawl

Alex Chapman

7NEWS

Published: 20/11/2020

Updated: 20 November 2020 9:54 am

A man accused of torturing and murdering his teenage girlfriend has died after being attacked in jail.

Zlatko Sikorsky, 37, was taken to Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra Hospital in a critical condition last Tuesday.

He suffered fatal head injuries during a brawl with another prisoner and spent more than a week on life support.

A spokesperson for Queensland Corrective Services confirmed in a statement he died from his injuries on Friday morning.

“The Queensland Police Service’s Correctional Services Investigation Unit is investigating,” it said.

“Our condolences go out to the man’s family and friends.”

Sikorsky was awaiting trial for charges of murder, torture, deprivation of liberty and interfering with a corpse in relation to the 2018 death of his 16-year-old girlfriend Larissa Beilby.

Beilby was found inside a barrel in the back of a dumped ute in Brisbane’s south in June 2018.

She was reported missing by her father on June 22 and her body not found until several days later.

INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/posts/3317965188325424

https://7news.com.au/news/qld/zlatko-sikorsky-accused-body-in-a-barrel-murderer-dies-in-hospital-after-prison-brawl-c-1559092.amp

   


“Pro lifers go to hell, take cardinal pell as well”

https://gloria.tv/post/L4aec8A78VHe2kBBQHvfWVhAS

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://quadrant.org.au/chapter-and-verse-on-the-pell-lynching/]


Cardinal George Pell. Pedophile Protector. Now has a stack of pedophile accusers to deal with on top of a Royal Commission, the Victorian Police and now ABC News Australia, Australia’s National Broadcaster.

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://donaldelley.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/george-pell-demands-investigation-into-victoria-police-abc-over-sexual-abuse-allegations-2/]




"Those who do evil to others...the killers, the rapistspsychossadists...you will come to know me well. Frank Castle is dead. Call me...the Punisher."

https://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2020/04/call-me-punisher-pro-death-penalty-quote.html


  

OTHER LINKS:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-20/body-in-barrel-jail-assault-zlatko-sikorsky-dies-larissa-beilby/12870410

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8935099/Accused-girlfriend-killer-Zlatko-Sikorsky-critical-condition-prison-bashing.html

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2020/05/social-media-dangers-exposed-by-mom.html

Cardinal George Pell acquitted by High Court, freed from Barwon Prison April 7, 2020 By Mark Bowling https://catholicleader.com.au/news/cardinal-george-pell-acquitted-by-high-court-expected-to-walk-free-from-barwon-prison-today

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://quadrant.org.au/chapter-and-verse-on-the-pell-lynching/]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pell

“Pro lifers go to hell, take cardinal pell as well” https://gloria.tv/post/L4aec8A78VHe2kBBQHvfWVhAS

https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/posts/2759518700836745

PAKISTANI PEDOPHILE SOHAIL AYAZ SENTENCED TO DEATH IN PAKISTAN (NOVEMBER 18, 2020)

http://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2020/11/pakistani-pedophile-sohail-ayaz.html

https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/posts/3318648208257122

On this date, December 1, 2020, a Rangpur paedophile, Riyad Pradhan was sentenced to death for the 2016 rape and murder of eight-year-old Tanjila Khatun Chumki. He does not deserve to live and he should be hanged together with the Pakistani Paedophile, Sohail Ayaz.

https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/posts/3371717176283558

http://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2020/12/rangpur-paedophile-sentenced-to-death.html

PHOTO: https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/photos/a.2501153036673314/3371737176281558

Thursday, April 28, 2016

PORT ARTHUR MASS MURDERER: MARTIN BRYANT



 
Martin John Bryant

Martin John Bryant (born 7 May 1967) is an Australian mass murderer who pleaded guilty to murdering 35 people and injuring 23 others in the Port Arthur massacre, a shooting spree in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia, in 1996. He is currently serving 35 life sentences plus 1,035 years without parole in the psychiatric wing of Risdon Prison in Hobart, Tasmania.

Bryant's rampage was the third-deadliest shooting by a lone gunman in history, the first being the 2011 Norway attacks committed by Anders Behring Breivik, followed by the 1982 massacre by Woo Bum-kon in South Korea.

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

MAN HARON MONIS (19 MAY 1964 TO 16 DECEMBER 2014)



                On this date, 16 December 2014, a hostage taker, Man Haron Monis was killed during the 2014 Sydney Hostage Crisis. I will post information about this criminal from Wikipedia.

Man Haron Monis
 

A picture of Man Haron Monis, the gunman involved with the 2014 Sydney hostage crisis
Born
Mohammad-Hassan Manteghi Borujerdi
19 May 1964
Borujerd, Iran
Died
16 December 2014 (aged 50)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of death
Residence
Bexley North, New South Wales, Australia
Known for
Responsible for the 2014 Sydney hostage crisis
Religion
Criminal charge
Criminal status
Died while awaiting trial in Australia
Spouse(s)
Noleen Hayson Pal (ex-wife)
Website
Man Haron Monis (19 May 1964 – 16 December 2014) was an Iranian-born refugee Australian citizen who took hostages in a siege at the Lindt Chocolate Café at Martin Place, Sydney on 15 December 2014, lasting for 17 hours, until the early hours of the following morning. The siege resulted in the death of Monis and two hostages.

While Monis had a warrant out for his arrest in Iran, he sought political asylum in Australia in 1996, which was granted in 2001. Monis variously promoted himself as an Iranian intelligence official, a political activist, a spiritual healer and expert in black magic, an outlaw bikie and a Muslim cleric. He told a psychiatrist who diagnosed him with schizophrenia that he had to change his name for "security reasons," variously calling himself "Michael Hayson Mavros", "Sheikh Haron", and "Ayatollah Mohammed Manteghi Boroujerdi".

Monis ran a "spiritual healing" business, telling some women that they needed to submit to sexual molestation to receive treatment. In 2014, Monis was charged with accessory to murder of his ex-wife, as well as over 40 counts of sexual assault. At the time of his death he had recently converted from Shia Islam to Sunni Islam, and attended Islamist rallies promoting conspiracy theories about Australian security agencies. While on bail, and facing a likely lengthy imprisonment, he declared allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

Life in Iran

Monis was born in Borujerd, Iran in 19th May, 1964. He published a book of poetry, Inside and Out or Daroon va Boroon (Persian: درون و برون‎‎), in 1996 in Iran. It did not sell well, which disappointed Monis. In the 1990s, Monis ran a company called Salhani Amal (Persian: صالحان عمل‎‎), which he used to buy discounted tyres from the Iranian government and re-sell them on the black market. He also ran a charity scam to avoid paying tax.

In 2001, using the pseudonym Ayatollah Manteghi Boroujerdi, he claimed in an interview with ABC Radio National's The Religion Report that he had been involved with the Iranian ministry of intelligence and security, and that his criticism of the regime and secret information he possessed had resulted in his persecution as well as the detention of his wife and children. During an ABC Radio interview, he claimed that his family's detention was a result of views the Iranian government believed to be "dangerously liberal". David Ruteledge, the journalist who interviewed him, described his as "a little bit dramatic."

Australia granted his request for political asylum that year. He claimed that his request for asylum followed the detention of his wife and children by Iranian authorities after he espoused liberal views on Islam. According to London-based Persian TV channel Manoto 1, he had fled Iran after taking US$200,000 of his customers' money in his tourism agency. The former chief of the Iranian police, Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moghaddam, stated that Monis previously ran a travel agency in Iran and fled the country to Malaysia and then Australia, having "a dark and long history of violent crime and fraud". According to Iran's official news agency, he was under prosecution by Interpol and Iranian police at the time he was granted asylum, and Australian police did not extradite him despite several requests. Some commentators have expressed concern regarding this immigration and citizenship process.

Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moghaddam, Iran's chief of police, told reporters that Monis had "a dark and long history of violent crime and fraud" in Iran and had run a travel agency in 1996, before fleeing to Malaysia and then Australia. "It lasted 4 years to collect evidence on Manteghi [Monis]'s identification documents and we reported this to the Australian police but since Australia has no extradition treaty with Iran, they didn't extradite him to Iran". He was protected from extradition by his refugee status.

Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency states that he was "under prosecution by the Interpol" and Iran provided information to the Australian government about his criminal record, mental and spiritual status. Despite this, he was granted asylum in Australia. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham publicly questioned the decisions made by the Australian government after several discussions in which Monis's criminal status in Iran was made "completely clear".

Life in Australia

He migrated to Australia as a refugee in 1996 seeking political asylum. He used a one-month business visa to gain entry to the country. He applied for a protection visa when his business visa expired, and was granted a bridging visa while the protection visa application was assessed.

From 1997 to 2000, Monis held a security guard licence, which would have let him carry a pistol between March and June 1997.

In November 2000, he chained himself to a pole at Parliament House, Sydney, and went on a one-day hunger strike to draw attention to his cause.

On 16 September 2002, Monis changed his name to Michael Hayson Mavros. While he was known as Mavros, he seemed to be 'embracing a secular life'. On 21 September 2006, he changed his name to Man Haron Monis.

Monis was investigated by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation four times, and there were more than 40 calls to ASIO's National Security Hotline. The family of his partner called the National Security Hotline in 2010 and were advised Monis "wasn't a threat". Monis had been on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation's watch-list in 2008 and 2009, but was dropped off the list for reasons that were not specified. In 2009, in Granville, NSW, Monis gave a lecture calling for an Islamic society and taunting foreign governments saying, “your intelligence service is not working properly.”

Monis lived in a flat with a housemate for six months in 1998. Monis said he was a senior member of the clergy in Iran, always locked his bedroom door, even when he went to the bathroom, and told his housemate not to bring friends over and not to answer the door if anyone knocked. Monis said that he was in "financial hardship" and borrowed payments amounting to $9,000 - which were never repaid.

2.1 Spouses

In 2003, Monis dated Amanda Morsy for about six months, telling her he was Romanian, giving her gold necklaces and driving her to dates in a Mercedes, convertible Peugeot and a Jeep. Monis was unable to be contacted after 8pm, claiming he was busy with his “spiritual consultation” business. Morsy described him as "secretive", "very reserved" and "formal" and wanting to "fit in" - and broke the relationship off after her family expresses reservations about his personality.

In 2003, Monis married a woman who was a client of his black magic business, though always kept his blinds closed, and told people at a Sydney mosque that he had a wife in Iran.

In July 2011, Monis was charged at a St Mary's police station for intimidation of his ex-wife, Noleen Hayson Pal, following a confrontation in a McDonald's car park in Green Valley. Pal claimed Monis had threatened to shoot her and told her that he held a gun licence.

In 2010, the family of Amirah Droudis reported Monis to the National Security Hotline because they found his behaviour strange. He was secretive with the family and always refused to have his photo taken even at Christmas. He gave them the appearance of having money and being "very generous" but vague about where he worked. They described him as "rarely forthcoming with any direct or detailed answers."

Social worker Sylvia Martin talked with Monis during a meeting with his former wife, Noleen Pal, in 2012. She described Monis as prone to "grandiosity" and a "hero in his own story" describing him as "capable of narcissism and also capable of manipulation." Noleen Pal said that Monis had "intimidated, duped and emotionally manipulated her" and that around 2007 he "became more strict" and told her to wear a veil, and restricted her from "singing and dancing" allegedly telling her "I'm doing it for Islam ... I want to be a martyr".

2.1.1 Accessory to Murder charge

On 21 April 2013, Pal's body was found stabbed 17 times and alight in a Werrington apartment stairwell. Monis' girlfriend Amirah Droudis was formally charged with Pal's murder, and on 15 November 2013, Monis was charged by NSW Police with being an accessory before and after the fact to the murder of Pal.

On 12 December 2013, Monis and Amirah appeared before Magistrate William Pierce at Penrith Local Court where they were granted bail. The magistrate said there were significant flaws in the Crown's case against the pair. "It is a weak case" he said. Prosecutor Brian Royce said Monis' claims that the Iranian Secret Police and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) were trying to frame him for the murder were fanciful. Magistrate Pierce said all theories needed to be examined.

On 22 January 2014, Monis appeared at Parramatta Local Court and, after informing magistrate Joan Baptie that he was representing himself, began discussing documents that he claimed were held by ASIO. He also claimed that ASIO was "conspiring against him" as they wanted him jailed. Magistrate Baptie told Monis that she had no power to order the release of documents held by ASIO and "advised him to stop talking because he would harm his defence". Monis staged a protest outside the court, following the adjournment of the case, "wearing chains and holding a sign claiming he has been tortured in custody". He was quoted as saying: "This is not a criminal case. This is a political case."

2.2 Claims of membership of Iranian Intelligence

Monis told individuals in Australia, including his lawyers, that he had worked for the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security and had knowledge about Iran's clandestine operations, and that it was for this reason he fled Iran. However, an Iranian embassy official stated Monis' claim to have worked in intelligence and security in Iran was a lie.

Monis said he was the secretary of the Iranian intelligence department.

2.3 Allegations of fabricated cleric status

Monis proclaimed himself to be a Muslim cleric. In late 2007, Australian Federation of Islamic Councils head Ikebal Patel said no Islamic community leaders knew anything about Monis and believed he "could be a fake deliberately stirring up anti-Islamic sentiment".

On 28 January 2008, Australia's senior Shia leader and head of Supreme Islamic Shia Council of Australia, Kamal Mousselmani, told The Australian that Monis "was not a genuine Shia spiritual leader" and "there are no ayatollahs in Australia." He urged Federal government officials to investigate his identity. "From the way he writes his fatwas (or religious edicts), I don't think he is Shia Muslim", he added.

2.4 Psychiatric assessment

In 2010 Monis was involuntarily hospitalized at Canterbury Hospital after displaying bizarre and erratic behaviour in a parking lot in Ashfield. A psychiatrist who assessed Monis in said she believed he had chronic schizophrenia and needed to be on anti-psychotic medication. Monis stated that he had been forced to close his spiritual business, was $20,000 in debt, and had to change his name for "security reasons." Monis was treated by two different psychiatrists who didn't know about the other and he was giving them different information. He was described as "quite guarded and reluctant to disclose too much information" and refused to give his phone number and home address. He was concerned that "ASIO and police were following him... and that some people could read his mind," according to a psychologist who grew up in Iran, who diagnosed him with obsessive compulsive disorder. He avoided buying medication for mental illness with his medicare card to conceal his use of medication from authorities.

One solicitor said that Monis seemed paranoid and would often speak with his hand over his mouth because he thought people "watching him" might be able to lip read.

2.5 Hate mail campaign

Monis, together with Amirah Droudis, undertook a campaign protesting against the presence of Australian troops in Afghanistan, by writing letters to the families of soldiers killed there, in which he called the soldiers murderers, and urged the soldiers' families to petition the government to remove its troops from Afghanistan. According to Justice Dyson Heydon of the High Court, the letters compared "the (deceased soldier) son to a pig and to a dirty animal. It calls the son's body 'contaminated'. It refers to it as 'the dirty body of a pig'. It describes Hitler as not inferior to the son in moral merit". Monis was arrested on charges of "using a postal or similar service to menace, harass or cause offence". Droudis received a 2-year good-behaviour bond for "assisting Monis in sending the letters". She appealed the sentence, but on 12 March 2015 Droudis dropped her appeal.


2.6 Court cases

On 10 November 2009, Monis appeared in court and claimed through his lawyers to be a peace activist. He later chained himself to the courthouse in protest over the charges. Monis was subsequently barred by the courts from expanding his protest to include letters to UK soldiers' families. In an inquest, lawyer Chris Murphy said that Monis claimed to be contacting families to recruit "people who had suffered loss in war" to join his cause. Murphy said "He didn't strike me as very intelligent." Monis chained himself to the courthouse against the directions of lawyers, and Murphy said "He was entirely self absorbed with his performance ... my recollection is he held a pen in the air and said 'this is my sword'." Lawyers described Monis as a "pest" and a "dickhead".

Manny Conditsis said that conversations with Monis were "draining and exhausting." Monis expressed conspiracy theories about ASIO, claiming that families of dead soldiers were not upset at his letters, but "ASIO was putting them up to it." He said "Monis was a very proud man," who cried "like a baby" in prison. Another lawyer said he always wanted to be "the centre of attention" in the media.

In December 2011, Monis appeared before the Court of Criminal Appeal in Sydney arguing that the charges against him were invalid because they infringed on his implied constitutional freedom of political communication, but the three-judge panel unanimously dismissed his case.

Upon further appeal to the High Court of Australia, the six-judge panel split 3–3 over the issue. Although the High Court of Australia normally comprises seven judges, one seat was vacant and as yet unfilled at the time Monis's case appeared before the court. Failing to achieve a majority vote in Monis's favour, the lower court's unanimous decision was left to stand.

On 12 December 2014, Monis' appeal against his conviction for criminal use of the postal service resulted in a split decision of the High Court. The decision related to his protest against the presence of Australian troops in Afghanistan, which he expressed by sending letters to the families of soldiers killed there in which he called the soldiers murderers and urged the families to petition the government to remove its troops from Afghanistan. One of the letters compared a dead soldier to a pig and called his body "contaminated". He sent similar letters to the families of British soldiers and the mother of a government official killed by a bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. Monis pleaded guilty and was sentenced to probation and 300 hours of community service and banned from using the Australian postal service. According to The Age, this conviction consumed him for several years, and the hostage incident followed three days after an unsuccessful attempt to have the conviction overturned. Monis had been granted conditional bail because the magistrate said "there were significant flaws in the Crown's case".

2.7 Rebels Motorcycle Club

Monis attempted to join the Rebels Motorcycle Club some time in 2012 or 2013, and photographed with a "1%" logo representing outlaw motorcycle clubs. Club members reportedly stated "no one really liked him" and described him as "strange and weird" and said "He would say he had a lot of money, but then he didn't have any." He was kicked out of the club and Rebels took his motorbike.

2.8 Sexual assault charges

Monis ran a "spiritual healing" business and promoted himself as a clairvoyant an expert in "astrology, numerology, meditation and black magic" services. The business has been described as a front for sexual advances on vulnerable women, who were told that they could only receive treatment if they were undressed and massaged on the breasts and genitals. With some women he threatened black magic curses if they did not submit to sex with him.

On 14 March 2014, Monis was arrested and charged with sexually and indecently assaulting a young woman who went to his consultancy in Wentworthville, New South Wales, for "spiritual healing", after seeing an advertisement in a local newspaper. Seven months later, on 13 October 2014, a further 40 charges were added, including 22 counts of aggravated sexual assault and 14 counts of aggravated indecent assault, allegedly committed against six more women who had visited his business.

2.9 Political activity

Monis promoted himself as a peace activist, and told his lawyers that his hate-mail campaign was to make families of dead soldiers support peace.

Commercial news media in Sydney often condemned Monis for making videos with his girlfriend narrating, expressing happiness about the Holocaust and 9/11 and attacking rape victims. Monis hated Channel Seven for their coverage of the Muhamed Haneef affair, and ran aggressive protests outside their studios. He once rushed at television hosts Melissa Doyle and David Koch in Martin Place yelling, “You are a killer and a terrorist.” Monis would often put on clerical garb and chain himself to a post visible from the Channel Seven live studio, handing out pamphlets declaring there was a “War on Islam” - leading the network to move studios when broadcasting the Sunrise program. Following the Haneef affair, in which a doctor was accused of aiding terrorists, Monis handed out pamphlets against Sunrise alleging that they told "Muslim doctors" that "If you want to kill people, why not use the tools of your own trade like a plague or a disease or something?" Monis made complaints to Channel Seven and the Australian Communications and Media Authority, which were dismissed.

Kevin Rudd publicised his consideration of changes to citizenship laws during the prosecution of Monis's letters. Monis used social media to attack politicians including then Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. His criticisms of Abbott, from 2013, related to Australia's military presence in Afghanistan. On 5 December 2014, he referred to a statement made by Rudd on changing immigration laws after Monis had been charged with seven counts of harassment. Before it was taken down, on 15 December 2014, Monis's Facebook account had 14,000 "likes".

Monis featured a photograph of Osama bin Laden on his website in 2008.

It has been reported that Monis was radicalised by members of Hizb ut-Tahrir. In June 2014 Monis attended a presentation by Uthman Badar and Wassim Doureihi of Hizb ut-Tahrir which was held in response to an earlier Uthman Badar lecture titled 'Honour Killings are Morally Justified', which was cancelled. Monis attended Hizb ut-Tahrir rallies and was described by Sydney Morning Herald journalist Anne Davies as "a little unstable. He also seemed a little creepy. Ominously, he also told me he did not think giving speeches would be enough."

2.9.1 Seeking contact with ISIS

In October 2014, Monis wrote a letter to George Brandis' office seeking advice on the legality of communicating with ISIS.

2.9.2 Conversion to Sunni Islam

Monis claimed to have converted from Shia Islam to Sunni Islam. An announcement on his now-suspended website, posted a week before the Sydney siege, stated: "I used to be a Rafidi, but not any more. Now I am a Muslim, Alhamdu Lillah." "Rafidi", which means "one who rejects" in Arabic, "is typically used by Sunnis to denigrate Shias as non-Muslim." Monis also used his website to pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State whose 'main enemies' are the Shi'a.

On the day prior to taking a group of people hostage, Monis posted to his website:




Islam is the religion of peace, that's why Muslims fight against the oppression and terrorism of USA and its allies including UK and Australia. If we stay silent towards the criminals we cannot have a peaceful society. The more you fight with crime, the more peaceful you are. Islam wants peace on the Earth, that's why Muslims want to stop terrorism of America and its allies. When you speak out against crime you have taken one step towards peace.


Australian Muslim commentators said that his conversion to Sunni Islam was less out of genuine religious conviction than designed to provide credibility in seeking an association with ISIL, as one "can't really claim to love IS when you're a Shiite and they're trying to exterminate you". He was a long-time self-proclaimed sheikh, albeit not recognised as such in the Islamic community. He was marginalised by Australian Muslim religious authorities and mosques for his extremist views and problematic personal and criminal history. It appears he came to espouse an extreme Islamist ideology on his own, and police and intelligence agencies have not identified any connections between Monis and international terrorist organisations.

   
Man Haron Monis
Hostage-taking and death


On the morning of 15 December 2014, Monis took hostage employees and customers at the Lindt chocolate café in Martin Place, Sydney, across from a Seven Network television studio. Hostages were made to hold up a Black Standard with the shahādah (Islamic statement of faith) written in white Arabic text.

Neighbouring buildings, including government offices and financial institutions, and Martin Place railway station, were evacuated and locked down. Some hostages managed to escape. The event lasted over 16 hours before police tactical officers stormed the café in the early hours of the following morning and Monis was confirmed by police to have died in the ensuing confrontation. Two of the hostages also died, several others were wounded, and a policeman suffered minor injuries.

In a website posting prior to the hostage incident, Monis denied all the charges against him, calling them politically motivated, accusing the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Australia's ASIO of framing him.

No one claimed Monis's body when it was released by the NSW Coroner, and the Sydney Muslim community refused to have anything to do with it. He was buried in an undisclosed NSW location at state expense.

Investigations

Prime Minister Tony Abbott was briefed by the Australian Federal Police on 16 December 2014 that Monis had a gun licence, but the AFP later confirmed that Monis "was not a registered firearms licence holder". A joint review has been announced by the federal and state governments, to be helmed by Michael Thawley from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Blair Comley of the New South Wales Department of Premier and Cabinet. It will investigate the handling of the siege, and how Monis "slipped through state and federal security and legal nets". Although a call had been made to the national security hotline based on the contents of Monis' website, there were no threats of direct violence.

On 16 December 2014, officers from the New South Wales Police Force and the Australian Federal Police went to the Belmore home of Monis' partner Amirah Droudis, and removed property. Her bail was revoked after a hearing on 22 December.

On 29 January 2015 an inquest began into the deaths at the Lindt Cafe, presided over by the NSW State Coroner, Michael Barnes. Its aim is "to determine how the [three] deaths occurred, the factors that contributed to them and whether they could have been prevented".

The joint State-Federal review was released on 22 February 2015.