Robert Hughes

Former Hey Dad! actor and convicted child abuser Robert Hughes appears in court via video link to seek parole and extradition to the UK.

So he'll keep doing wrong things." She said his focus upon release would be "maintaining a very low profile and spending the rest of his time in the UK with his partner" while "abiding by any conditions that would be placed on him by the UK authorities". Convicted child sex offender Robert Hughes plans to "maintain a very low profile" in the United Kingdom if he is granted parole and deported, a Sydney court has heard.

Convicted pedophile and ex-Australian TV star Robert Hughes should be released from prison because there is a low risk he will reoffend, a court has been ...

“On the one hand I’d prefer him to stay in jail where he’s not hurting kids and on the other hand it’s like, just let him go, let him be someone else’s problem and then I don’t have to deal with it anymore.” “Anybody who’s going through it and they’re scared to go in to the court and see them, absolutely do it because it takes all their power away. “It’s not a situation where he will be completely unmonitored when released to the community.

Former Hey Dad! actor and convicted child sex offender Robert Hughes plans to maintain a "very low profile" in the United Kingdom if released from jail on ...

In arguing Hughes did not represent an "unacceptable risk" to the community, Ms Bruce said Interpol inquiries had confirmed it was not a situation where Hughes would be "completely unmonitored" in the UK. Hughes' legal aid lawyer, Hannah Bruce, said reasons for parole were his low risk of sexual reoffending, ineligibility for jail rehab programs and that he would be subject to "notification orders" in the UK, where he would reside on release. Hughes faced the parole hearing at Parramatta via AVL link, which was told details from a psychologist's report including that the prisoner continued to deny his crimes, and that his risk factors included sexual deviancy and proximity.

The disgraced actor and convicted paedophile wants to return to Britain to spend his remaining years with his wife, and to keep a low profile, a parole ...

He’s a denier,” Sarah Monaghan, who played Hughes’ on-screen daughter and was one of his victims, said outside the Sydney West Trial Courts. Hughes was sentenced in April 2014 to a maximum of 10 years and nine months in jail with a non-parole period of six years for 10 counts of sexual and indecent assault on girls aged between six or seven and 15 years in the 1980s and 1990s. Hughes, 73, was convicted in 2014 of a string of sexual and indecent assaults on girls in the 1980s and 1990s.

Convicted child sex offender and former TV star Robert Hughes will be subject to another public parole hearing to determine whether he is fit for release.

The SPA previously said “it is not prepared to release the offender into any community without the safeguard of supervision or parole conditions”. SPA chairman David Frearson SC will preside over the hearing due to begin on Friday morning in Parramatta. He renounced his Australian citizenship meaning he would be deported to the UK upon release, where he would not be supervised in the community or compelled to comply with parole conditions.

The disgraced actor will next week learn if he is to be released on parole after being behind bars since 2014 for sexually abusing four girls during the 1980s ...

One of his victims, former child actor Sarah Monahan, returned to Australia from the US to face Hughes in court. Hughes has renounced his Australian citizenship, meaning if he is released, he will be deported to the UK. The court has heard the disgraced actor is still a “denier” but his wife claims he will attend treatment overseas if he is released.

A Community Corrections report stated Hughes has consistently been assessed as having a low, or below average risk of committing a further sexual offence, and ...

The parole panel has reserved its decision for a week. So he’ll keep doing wrong things.” NSW Parole Authority has reserved its decision on former Hey Dad! star for one week.