Nearly one in five of the non-citizens released after the High Court’s NZYQ ruling on indefinite immigration detention have reoffended under State criminal offences, fresh information from police reveals.
The Australian Federal Police have also told senators almost all of those who have allegedly breached visa conditions, which is now a crime under Commonwealth laws with a mandatory minimum of a year in jail, have done so multiple times.
The new information handed to senators will place further pressure on the Government over its handling of the cohort and other allegedly criminal foreigners as officials face fresh scrutiny in Senate estimates.
Shadow home affairs minister James Paterson said the revelation that 28 of the 153 people released from detention after the ruling had allegedly reoffended was a further indictment on Immigration Minister Andrew Giles.
“We have a detainee crime spree. And yet the Albanese Government, the Minister for Home Affairs and the Minister for Immigration have done nothing to use the powers that Parliament gave them to protect the community,” he said.
“Let’s remember, among these 153 people are seven murderers, 37 sex offenders and 72 people convicted of other violent crimes.”
The Government is yet to make any preventative detention applications under laws rushed through Parliament at the end of last year, although Mr Giles has previously said several legal cases being prepared are close to being lodged.
A separate document from the AFP shows the 10 people who were charged with alleged visa breaches between December and March had racked up a collective 35 charges.
One former detainee, Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan, 43, made national headlines when it was revealed he was allegedly involved in a violent home invasion and robbery of elderly couple Ninette Simons, 73, and her husband Philip, 76, in their Girrawheen home in April.
![Ninette Simons, a cancer survivor, said the attack in her Girrawheen home had left her feeling terrified and in a lot of pain.](https://timesofsydney.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/3e2d669857c0f43480c0751489fe30c8b34f1a70.jpg)
Kimbengere Gosoge, avoided an immediate prison term last week for curfew breaches and failing to charge his ankle monitor. Five days later, Mr Gosoge was back behind bars after he allegedly failed to remain at a notified address in Perth.
One person in NSW was charged with breaching their curfew 10 times.
However, these charges were all dropped when the visas had to be reissued in March due to a technical bungle.
Since the start of April, AFP have reported a further 15 times they have charged people from the NZYQ cohort with alleged visa breaches, including breaking curfew, failing to report in or not correctly charging their ankle monitoring bracelets.