SA: Killer has parole revoked
ADELAIDE, Aug 26 AAP - A killer who fled from an Adelaide psychiatric facility lastweek has had his parole revoked after surrendering to police in Melbourne.
The move by South Australian Parole Board chief Frances Nelson this morning clearedthe way for Rene Wilson-Bosman to be extradited from Victoria and returned to custodyin Adelaide.
Ms Nelson said that, by leaving Glenside hospital and failing to take his medication,the 22-year-old had breached significant conditions of his parole.
She said the most appropriate place for him now would be the secure psychiatric facilityat James Nash House.
"Jail is inappropriate for him. He has a psychiatric illness," Ms Nelson told ABC Radio.
"But it will depend on bed space."
Wilson-Bosman had been a resident at Adelaide's Glenside hospital for almost two years.
Ongoing treatment was a condition of his parole after his conviction for the rape andmanslaughter of 84-year-old grandmother Jean Kostos in 1996.
But he walked out of Glenside last Wednesday, raising fears that he could become violentafter failing to take his medication for schizophrenia.
His escape also prompted calls for a review of security at South Australia's psychiatricfacilities.
Yesterday, members of Wilson-Bosman's family urged him to give himself up.
He did so last night, at Melbourne East police station.
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