The court docket battle of former developer and politician Salim Mehajer has taken one more shocking flip, with a court docket listening to he’s unlikely to be launched from jail any time quickly.
The devastating blow to the previous Auburn Deputy Mayor follows a resolution to grant him bail on different costs simply final week.
Mehajer has been in jail since 2021 after he was discovered responsible of mendacity underneath oath. With his non-parole interval expiring on January 18, he may have walked out of jail in only a few days.
That freedom rested on the situation that he be granted bail for unrelated home violence costs within the NSW District Court final Tuesday — which he was, to his seen aid.
But in a recent twist, a court docket has now heard he’s unlikely to have his handcuffs eliminated any time within the close to future.
In a Supreme Court bail call-over on Monday, Registrar George Galanis instructed Mehajer the Crown had launched a detention utility to maintain him behind bars.
“It is my understanding that follows a new decision of the parole authority for there to be no release on parole,” Mr Galanis stated.
Mehajer, who was self-represented, requested Mr Galanis why his parole was being opposed. The Registrar stated that might be addressed in an upcoming detention utility listening to.
Mehajer instructed the court docket he had filed an utility to reverse the State Parole Authority’s resolution to not grant parole, however was met with disappointment when Mr Galanis stated: “That may change their decision, but not for some time.”
The depressing jail circumstances Mehajer has confronted in current months have been aired in court docket final Tuesday.
Judge Mark Williams stated he had been in solitary confinement, the place he’s locked in his cell 24-hours a day, has to sit down on his mattress or on the concrete ground, and has had no entry to treatment to deal with his bipolar dysfunction.
Mehajer is ready to face trial in March for allegedly assaulting, intimidating and choking his ex-girlfriend.
He earlier instructed the court docket he would “vigorously defend” the costs.
There is but to be a date set for Mehajer’s detention utility, because the court docket heard he’s in search of authorized illustration. The court docket heard that if he’s self-represented, he might once more face court docket alone as early as Thursday.
