ON THE OUTSIDE: Tracey Wigginton photographed at West End - the same suburb where she committed a horrific murder. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen Source: The Australian
DRAWN, weary and looking much older than her 46 years, this is the first photo of notorious lesbian vampire killer Tracey Wigginton since her release from nearly 23 years of jail.
She is visibly frail, moving about on crutches and much larger than she was before imprisonment, the Courier-Mail reported.
One of her 31 conditions prohibits her from speaking to the media unless gaining permission from the parole board, but sources close to Wigginton say she just wants to get on with her life away from the public glare.
She is currently living in a crisis accommodation centre at Southport on the Gold Coast.
Wigginton was driven there by Sisters Inside director Debbie Kilroy after being released from Numinbah Correctional Centre on Wednesday.
Today, Ms Kilroy said a decision by a local newspaper to publish the street name of her new residence had left her fearful.
"I'm not sure what the purpose of publishing an address is. Is it to attract vigilantes?" Sisters Inside director Debbie Kilroy told ABC Radio.
"I can't think of a reason why you'd publish someone's address when they've gone through a gruelling process with the parole board over a number of years to be released."
Wigginton and three other women lured Mr Baldock into a car at Kangaroo Point and then drove him to a park at West End where she stabbed him 27 times and drank his blood.
Ms Kilroy said the media attention would make it harder for the remorseful Ms Wigginton to rejoin society, a difficult task for any prisoner who has spent a lot of time behind bars.
"To have the added stress and hounding of the media compounds that difficulty," she said.
She said society trusted the prison system to rehabilitate prisoners, and the parole system to make good decisions about their release.
"It's about the community ... accepting the decision that's been made to allow people to get on with their lives."
Ms Kilroy, who knows Ms Wigginton and had offered to live with her on her release, said she was remorseful for her crime.
"I absolutely believe that she'll never commit another crime," she said.
Ms Kilroy was sentenced to six years' jail for drug trafficking in 1989. After her release from Brisbane's Boggo Road Jail, she established prisoner advocacy group Sisters Inside, and in 2003 was awarded the Order of Australia for service to the community.
In 2007, she became the first woman admitted as a legal practitioner in Queensland after being convicted of a serious criminal offence.
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