Snowtown murderer James Vlassakis up for parole in a year after accomplice Mark Haydon was released into the community

One of the Snowtown killers James Vlassakis will be eligible to apply for parole in a year.The chair of the South Australian Parole Board refused to discuss his parole prospects to avoid pre-empting the board's decision.

Bunting and Wagner were convicted of 11 and 10 murders respectively and are in prison for the rest of their lives with no prospect of parole.Vlassakis, who was 19 when he committed the crimes, was found guilty of being involved in four of the murders and received a life sentence. "I'm not prepared to discuss that because, to begin with, he hasn't applied for parole," Ms Nelson said.

The parole board chair said she considered Haydon a low-risk offender and a different man from the one who was first taken into custody in May 1999."We do undertake a very careful risk assessment and in his case, it took longer because of the association with Bunting and Wagner. "The media scrutiny inhibited his resocialisation because he was anxious enough, being released into the community the ordinary daily challenges that he would face," Ms Nelson said."So that, to some extent, it setback his resocialisation.""He's a bit of a loner and passive sort of individual, which I suppose is why he was under the thrall of Bunting in the first place," she said.

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