Unit five of the self-care houses at Whanganui Prison has been prepared for tomorrow's early arrival of Stewart Murray Wilson, with a black polythene attached to makeshift fences an attempt to afford him some privacy.
But Wilson's stint in the area could be brief if Justice Minister Judith Collins gets her way - she's drafting a new law which could see offenders like him put back in jail.
“Somebody with the sort of offending history of Stewart Murray Wilson who has shown no remorse and is considered to be of extreme danger to members of the public…that is the sort of person who is likely to be subject to one of these orders,” says Ms Collins.
They would be called public protection orders and would allow a High Court judge to review the cases of former prisoners subject to extended supervision orders, that's where very dangerous offenders are monitored even after their parole ends.
They would be re-assessed by a judge, in a civil rather than criminal proceeding, and if they're considered too dangerous locked up again.
Ms Collins has proposed such orders before but this time she's acknowledged that she wants them to apply retrospectively, to people like Wilson.
“I don't want these people out,” says Ms Collins.
But tomorrow Wilson will be let out and so the Whanganui council is seeking a legal opinion on the likelihood of a successful appeal to today's High Court decision to stop him being placed in the Whanganui Prison grounds.
The council is also encouraging the community to shun Wilson - providing businesses with trespass notices to hand him if he comes on their property.
“I’m reasonably happy, I think we have a council that wants to continue to actually do something about this issue, just because we lost the judicial review doesn’t mean to say that there aren’t other things that we can do,” says Whanganui mayor Annette Main.
“I'm happy now that the community and the councillors can trespass this guy but there was a lot of debate going on about where exactly he was going to be trespassed and who could go about it, but it’s still not going to solve the issue that he’s here,” says Whanganui resident John Sturnmey.
And tomorrow morning at around 5.30 he will be there, released into a community determined to keep themselves safe.
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