Martinborough shotgun killer Michael Busch this month admitted to parole board members who refused him early release that he committed the 1989 murder to hide his homosexuality.
The hearing on March 6 also heard that after a prison course last year Busch acknowledged he was homosexual "for the first time" to family and others, and soon afterward ended a marriage engagement made while on parole four years earlier.
In 1990 Busch was sentenced to life imprisonment for the shotgun murder of Ian Silby, 14, and the attempted murder of Noel Hayes at Hayes' Martinborough home in November 1989.
Busch had trapped the pair in the house after allegations were made of a sexual relationship between himself and the teenager.
Mr Hayes this year objected to the granting of parole for Busch, as he has at five previous hearings. In 2001 he confronted Busch in person about the alleged sexual relationship between Busch and Ian Silby.
The next year Busch was paroled before being recalled within months for breaching a parole condition forbidding him from association without supervision with anybody aged 16 or under.
Mr Hayes earlier told the Times-Age that Busch had breached his parole "taking kids to school and picking them up again by himself".
Busch acknowledged to the parole board this month that the recall was justified after he "rushed into his new-found freedom in a way that was both naive and rendered him invulnerable to the possibility of further offending, that cannot occur again", a copy of the board decision said.
Busch has the support of his family, the board said, with some members offering their homes and willing to help him to avoid reoffending.
"This open acknowledgement of his sexuality is a fundamental change for Mr Busch, coming as it does after nearly four decades which he accepts he has concealed from many who were close to him the reality of his sexual preference," the board said.
The board, taking into particular consideration the acceptance by Busch of his homosexuality, said it is "as yet too early on the new road that Busch is now travelling" for him to be granted parole.
The changes Busch has made will need "considerable" maintenance, the board said, and despite family support "the issues that would inevitably confront Busch upon his return to the community could (not) be adequately addressed" by the family.
Busch needs to develop a wider support network, the board said, so his eventual parole "can occur within the context of a staged and structured reintegration".
The board will reconsider parole for Busch about a year from now although he is able, under Section 26 of the Parole Act, to apply for an earlier parole hearing if he believes an approved release plan is in place. The board recommended Busch be granted home leave so he can work toward the establishment of an approved release plan.
Boy?s killer finally admits homosexuality
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