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Whining brute is too dangerous to be freed Violent thug moans about human rights as his bid to get out of jail is rejected

- BY SARAH VESTY sarah.vesty@reachplc.com

A VIOLENT thug who carried out a catalogue of horrific abuse against two women has moaned that his human rights are being violated after being kept behind bars.

Thomas O’Leary demanded a report be created by the authoritie­s detailing how he could safely be manageded in the community in a bidd to be freed from prison.

Officials have refusedsed his requests as the bruteute has been assessed as being of “very high riskk to potential partners,s, prior victims and maless both known and unknown”.

The report found there were simply no methods of safely controllin­g O’Leary’s behavioure­haviour in the community.

The thug was handed a lifelong restrictio­n order in 2014 after carrying out a series of vicious attacks on two former partners – Kerrie Brown and Georgia McNulty.

The 38- year- old savagely attacked both women at addresses in Glasgow between 2006 and 2012 and was ordered to serve at least five years behind bars. He half-strangled both women, threatened them with a knife, repeatedly punched and kicked both victims while also thrashing them with a belt.

Fuelled by alcohol and steroids, bodybuilde­r O’Leary also stubbed out a lit cigarette on the leg of one of the women.

The family of a third w oomam n , Emma BrownBrown­e, 22, claimed ththee brutb e houndehoun­ded her from behind bars before she took her own life in 2009, but he was never convicted of crimes against her. The legal team for O’Leary said while he acknowledg­ed his risk of reoffendin­g, he still wanted the supplement­ary report in a bid to persuade the parole board to release him. He took his fight to the Court of Session in Edinburgh and complained he was being treated differentl­y to other prisoners and the process was “unfair”. His case was thrown out by Lord Braid who found O’Leary was not being discrimina­ted against and ruled that his demands would not be fulfilled.

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 ??  ?? MOANER Thomas O’Leary claims rights are violated
MOANER Thomas O’Leary claims rights are violated
 ??  ?? TRAGIC Emma Browne, and our story
TRAGIC Emma Browne, and our story

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