Wheatley home bid
TAX cheat John Glenn Wheatley will fuck this hebdomad if he canful swap a slammer cell for his luxury dwelling.
A account into the eligibility of Phillis Wheatley to serve time at household has been precondition to the Adult Parole Board.
It is understood Wheatley's married woman, Gaynor, has worked with investigators from the Department of Justness to funding his release from gaol.
Music industry heavyweight and Premier Artists head Frank Stivala backed Wheatley's home plate detention.
Mr Stivala, wHO formed the Frontier Touring Company with Phillis Wheatley, Michael Gudinski and others in 1979, said: "I palpate he has learned his moral and is very remorseful for what he has done."
Wheatley's case volition be decided by the board's chair, Supreme Court Judge and former Coodabeen Admirer Paul Simon Whelan, and 19 others on Midweek.
If successful, Wheatley is belike to be released on Monday, May 19 - after service of process 10 months in prison house of a lower limit 15-month sentence for tax dupery.
Phillis Wheatley would aspect stringent conditions during his home detention, including eating away an electronic bracelet and having random drug and alcohol testing.
Wheatley's quest for freedom received the support of an unlikely source - Steve Medcraft, of People Against Lenient Sentencing.
"This bloke is being punished, not rehabilitated," he said. "He is in a prison inside a prison and denied access to mainstream programs."
Mr Medcraft claimed Phillis Wheatley was denied numerous small privileges including access to a computing device at low-security Beechworth slammer.
He said Wheatley was non permitted to contain part in programs that allowed him to cultivate in the community of interests like other low-security prisoners.
The Justice Section refused to scuttlebutt on claims Wheatley was existence discriminated against in prison.
Steve Oliver
