It was an ”indictment” on the system [Dept of Corrections] that someone like [Malcolm] Chaston [now a convicted murder] could source objectionable material [pornograhy] while behind bars. ”It is hugely irresponsible and a disgrace,” he [Garth McVicar – Sensible Sentencing Trust Founder] said.
WHITE SUPREMACIST Malcolm Chaston was allegedly able to watch soft-porn movies before being released from prison and murdering young mother Vanessa Pickering.
Chaston will be sentenced on Monday on the murder charge and also of the sexual assault of another female.
Sensible Sentencing Trust founder Garth McVicar has released an email sent to him from a prison guard in the months leading up to Chaston’s prior release from jail in mid-2008.
The unnamed guard wrote of Chaston: ”He is a very sick puppy and these sex movies just feed his sickness.
”He watches these movies and skites about things he is going to do when he gets out.
”This is a very sick place, can you imagine why they would let sex offenders watch sex videos. God help us and the poor woman these mongrels come across when they get out.”
The email stated: ”I wonder if you are aware that the Dept of Corrections has recently decided that R16 videos and DVDs are OK to be shown in prisons.
”There is no distinction as to what type of R16 is shown to what type of prisoner _ i.e. a soft porn R16 can be shown in a sex offenders unit, and R16 with violence can be shown to violent prisoners.
”Can you imagine what these videos do to mongrels like Malcom [sic] Chaston …”
Source: Sex Movies before murder. By Neil Reid 15 April 2011 (Fairfax Media)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/4893344/Sex-movies-before-murder
It was revealed on February 14 that Chaston a 41-year-old former member of white supremacist gang the Fourth Reich had in November 2010 pleaded guilty to Vanessa Pickering’s murder.
But the plea was suppressed until the heavily-tattooed former freezing worker appeared in the Christchurch High Court in February to face a charge of assault with intent to commit sexual violation against another woman.
Ms Vanessa, 27, was killed in February 2010.
Crown Prosecutor Brent Stanaway has called for Chaston to be handed an open-ended sentence of preventative detention.
Following the lifting of suppression of Chaston’s guilty plea, it was revealed several prison guards had issued chilling prophecies about him in the months leading up to his release from prison in mid-2008.
At the time, Chaston was being prepared for release after being handed a six-year sentence after being found guilty of unlawful sexual connection, rendering unconscious and injuring with intent.
He also had a raft of previous convictions for sexually-related and violent offending.
Several guards from a South Island prison wrote sternly-worded warnings to Mr McVicar outlining why they believed Chaston was a threat to society, and saying they had approached prison bosses with their concerns.
Corrections’ southern regional manager Paul Monk confirmed that prior to November 2007: ”Some rented DVDs were able to be screened in recreation rooms or other communal areas. Prisoners have access to general television channels which air adult rated content.”
Mr Monk said Chaston’s prison manager and unit manager were not made aware of staff concerns about the killer prior to his release.
Talking to Fairfax Media, McVicar said the prison guards’ anger towards Chaston’s release had reached ”fever pitch” as they realised the risk he posed.
While he acknowledged Corrections had cracked down on videos, games and magazines available to inmates, he said it was an ”indictment” on the system that someone like Chaston could source objectionable material while behind bars.
”It is hugely irresponsible and a disgrace,” he said.
Reference: ‘Sick puppy’ saw porn in prison before muder. By Neil Reid.
Dominion Post 18 April 2011. p. A3
Fairfax Media
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