{"id":22212,"date":"2026-09-24T06:08:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/snowtown-killer-vlassakis-moves-to-adelaide-pre-release-greek-city-times\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T06:08:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:08:01","slug":"snowtown-killer-vlassakis-moves-to-adelaide-pre-release-greek-city-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/snowtown-killer-vlassakis-moves-to-adelaide-pre-release-greek-city-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowtown Killer Vlassakis Moves to Adelaide Pre-Release \u2013 Greek City Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"S\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James Spyridon Vlassakis is being moved to the Adelaide Pre-release Centre, the first step toward life outside prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 46-year-old finished his non-parole period. The South Australian government tried to stop his release. That bid failed earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He will stay at the Yatala pre-release centre, in Adelaide\u2019s north, for up to 12 months. The Parole Board will watch him there and set conditions for any later move into the community. He had been in a state prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vlassakis was the youngest of four people convicted in the Snowtown \u201cbodies in the barrels\u201d murders between 1992 and 1999. He pleaded guilty to the murders of Fred Brooks, Gary O\u2019Dwyer, David Johnson and his half-brother Troy Youde. A court gave him life with 26 years non-parole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was a main prosecution witness. His evidence helped convict John Bunting and Robert Wagner, who were jailed for 11 and 10 murders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ronald Lane, nephew of victim Barry Lane (also known as Vanessa Lane), called the sentence \u201cvery soft\u201d and said the law should change so other families do not go through the same thing. Vlassakis was not convicted of Barry Lane\u2019s murder in October 1997.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Source: Eva Blandis, ABC News, 23\u201324 September 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"category_container author-information\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<section id=\"authorpage\" class=\"authorpage\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/99ca06517608e7af44e9761bf7c358974ffbc4a43859fd8e5be6fc2f50d341af?s=164&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/99ca06517608e7af44e9761bf7c358974ffbc4a43859fd8e5be6fc2f50d341af?s=328&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-164 photo lazyload\" height=\"164\" width=\"164\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"author-content\">\n<h5>Bill Giannopoulos<\/h5>\n<h4>Junior Editor<\/h4>\n<p>Bill Giannopoulos is a Junior Editor at Greek City Times, covering Greek and international news, sport, and history.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.gr\" class=\"boxed-icon fill\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa-solid fa-link\"\/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2026\/09\/24\/snowtown-killer-vlassakis-moves-to-adelaide-pre-release\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Spyridon Vlassakis is being moved to the Adelaide Pre-release Centre, the first step toward life outside prison. The 46-year-old finished his non-parole period. The South Australian government tried to stop his release. That bid failed earlier this month. He will stay at the Yatala pre-release centre, in Adelaide\u2019s north, for up to 12 months. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Snowtown Killer Vlassakis Moves to Adelaide Pre-Release \u2013 Greek City Times\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/snowtown-killer-vlassakis-moves-to-adelaide-pre-release-greek-city-times\/#more-22212\" aria-label=\"Read more about Snowtown Killer Vlassakis Moves to Adelaide Pre-Release \u2013 Greek City Times\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0c66ac506338f9fc31c2c78ceb203214-ezgif.com-avif-to-jpg-converter.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}