In the matter of the Corrections Act 1997
and
In the matter of an Application for Parole by Richard Matthew Bartulin
25 October 2005
You were convicted on 21 June 2001 for burglary and stealing and assault and given eight years and eight months imprisonment. You came before the Parole Board in February 2004 and we granted you parole.
We granted you parole after considering all the matters set out in the Correction Act. I will not repeat the reasons we gave you parole, nut they are still pertinent.
The matters that we had to consider when granting you parole were whether or not you were likely to re-offend (we thought you were not likely to re-offend), and whether or not your rehabilitation would be best served on the outside of the prison or inside. We thought it would be best served outside particularly given the fact that you had good employment which you could take up immediately.
Notwithstanding that you breached our trust you have given us an explanation for the fresh change in that those charges had been lying dormant and have only recently re-emerged. Following the laying of those charges you had an encounter with amphetamines, which resulted in a revocation of parole.
You have now served your sentences in relation to the other matters. In effect you have spent a further sixteen months in prison in relation to the new matters for which you have been charged (which were not that serious matters) and the breach of the parole.
We have taken into account all the matters required under the Corrections Act particularly your employment. You have good employment prospects on the outside. You have never had any problems obtaining employment with JMK, a large building contractor; you have also a chance of employment with your brother. We think that as far as rehabilitation is concerned you are far better off on the outside of the prison system than within the prison system.
As far as offending again, I have already pointed out the offences for which you are back are old offences; that is they occurred before we granted you parole.
We are still in the same situation we were when we granted you parole originally, that is, we think it is unlikely that you will commit any further offences of burglary and stealing.
So for all those reasons we are going to take another chance with you and we are granting you parole as from the 3rd November 2005.
