00:01Stella Magna Salas says she can't understand why the parole board has decided to release
00:07her former husband.
00:08I'm fearful of my life, I'm scared, I'm petrified.
00:14Matthew Thompson was jailed after pleading guilty to six counts of assault.
00:17The former policeman repeatedly beat his wife, shut her out of their house, cut up her credit
00:23card and brought bullets home from work.
00:25The parole board has now granted Thompson release, 17 months into his two years and
00:29three months sentence, saying it doesn't believe he's a threat to society.
00:34I was surprised, shocked and disgusted really.
00:39We know what he's capable of doing.
00:41But the police minister has defended the parole board's independent decision, saying Thompson
00:46will be tracked electronically.
00:48Community corrections do an excellent job in monitoring offenders and the parole board will
00:52certainly be putting him back in jail should he breach his parole conditions.
00:57Stella Magna Salas says she again feels let down by the justice system, firstly by the
01:03Department of Corrections who called to tell her about Thompson's parole but couldn't reveal
01:08when he'd be released.
01:10And secondly by South Australia Police.
01:13Stella says no one from the force has reached out, despite her repeated criticism about how
01:18it treats victims of domestic assault and handles complaints about its own.
01:24Stella is now looking to move out of her home.
01:27To keep my family safe, I'm considering when he's let out to leave the state, to go overseas,
01:36to move in with my family.
01:38Corrections says the correct process was followed by its Victims Services Unit, while South Australia
01:43Police says it wasn't informed that parole had been granted.
01:47hinted.
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