Arthur Taylor feels aggrieved

A notorious paroled prisoner and ‘‘jail house lawyer’’, Arthur Taylor, was made to move from a Porirua house amid allegations of family harm incidents, hard drinking, and drug use at the property.

But Taylor says he was not the cause of the trouble and in one incident he was the victim.

‘‘It was no fault of mine that the police were called,’’ he said yesterday.

He was not in breach of his parole conditions, he had passed a drug test, and he was not charged with any offence, he said.

‘‘I am feeling very aggrieved at the moment,’’ he said.

In the High Court at Wellington Taylor is challenging what was said to be a probation officer’s order to leave the property, but he claimed a ‘‘high risk’’ committee at the Department of Corrections head office actually made the decision without authority.

Taylor’s probation officer denied that.

A judge was told the decision was based on ‘‘family harm callouts’’, excessive alcohol consumption, illicit drug use, and the presence of two people regarded as unsuitable and who were not previously occupants.

Although he can’t return to the

Porirua house where he had been living on parole, Taylor told Stuff that he would continue his High Court challenge to the decision to make him move, and was confident he would win in the end.

Taylor, 63, was released from prison about 18 months ago.

During his years in jail he has fought many legal battles as a lay litigant.

He said things had been going brilliantly with his rehabilitation until Corrections told him to leave the house.

He was also working from the property as a ‘‘legal consultant’’.

The legal occupier of the house, Julianne Miles, did not own it but under the will of her late partner

could live there until her death or entry into another relationship.

The trustee of the trust that owned the property did not know Taylor was living there, the court was told.

Yesterday Justice Peter Churchman refused to stop the move in the meantime but said Corrections should help Taylor retrieve his belongings from the house, and help him find somewhere ‘‘suitable’’ to live.

Taylor told Stuff that Corrections was suggesting he live in doss houses alongside active criminals, places it would have told him breached his parole conditions if he had found the accommodation for himself.

Corrections had paid for a motel until tomorrow but he did not know where he was going after that.

‘‘It’s quite distressing unsettling,’’ he said.

Taylor has spent most of the past 40 years in prison, for offences including escaping from prison, drugs, firearms and kidnapping.

‘‘It was no fault of mine that the police were called.’’

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