Major update on disgraced former deputy mayor Salim Mehajer's bid for freedom

Disgraced erstwhile person and spot developer Salim Mehajer could beryllium released from situation wrong months.

He's presently serving a seven-year and nine-month condemnation for a drawstring of crimes, including unit against his erstwhile spouse and forging his lawyer's signature.

The tribunal heard the erstwhile lawman politician of Auburn Council successful occidental Sydney, had suffocated a pistillate and threatened to enactment a 'bullet' successful her mother's head.

Mehajer volition beryllium eligible to front a nationalist parole proceeding connected June 12 up of a imaginable aboriginal merchandise day connected July 18. 

The substance was considered astatine a gathering of the State Parole Authority earlier this month, news.com.au reported.

A assemblage corrections pre-release study recommended helium beryllium released connected conditional parole with supervision.

Standing successful the mode of Mehajer's state is the Commissioner of Corrective Services, who noted Mehajer is an 'offender of interest' and indicated plans to marque submissions astir his imaginable merchandise connected parole.

Mehajer was initially jailed successful November 2020 aft being found blameworthy of 2 counts of perverting the people of justness and 1 number of making a mendacious connection nether oath.

He was recovered to person lied in affidavits and nether cross-examination, which were utilized to unafraid his relaxed bail conditions.

The embattled person returned to tribunal successful 2023 and was recovered blameworthy successful 2 abstracted trial, 1 regarding fraud and the different home unit matters.

Mehajer was sentenced to a maximum of 7 years and 9 months for some cases. 

In his home unit case, a assemblage convicted him of multiple counts of assault, 1 number of intimidation and 1 number of suffocation relating to his ex-partner.

The tribunal heard Mehajer had punched the pistillate successful her caput during an statement successful his car, squeezed her manus and crushed the telephone she held, and threatened to termination her mother.

Just 1 period later, the assemblage successful his fraud lawsuit recovered him blameworthy of two counts each of making a mendacious papers and utilizing a mendacious document. 

He had created the mendacious documents by forging the signatures of his solicitor, Zali Burrows, and sister.

Mehajer returned to tribunal again successful 2024 for his relation successful a staged car crash.

He pleaded guilty to 22 charges, including perverting the people of justice, making a mendacious practice resulting successful a constabulary investigation, making a mendacious telephone for an ambulance and negligent driving.

Mehajer had staged the car mishap successful westbound Sydney during October 2017 successful bid to hold his tribunal appearance.

At the clip helium was owed to beforehand tribunal for assaulting a taxi driver.

The erstwhile lawman politician was sentenced to a maximum of 2 years for the offences, with a non-parole play of 16 months.