Push for extended supervision order to be placed on child killer due to walk free in just weeks
Damien Noyes was a cheeky six-year-old, playing in a park at Whalan just days before Christmas when he was abducted, strangled and run over with a car.
His small body was dumped in the western Sydney suburb of Penrith just days before Christmas in 1992.
Phillip Wayne Lett lured the boy into his car and eventually strangled him with his own shorts.
Damien Noyes was just six years old when he was killed. 9news
Lett has been in jail for 26 years, but is due to walk free in just 47 days, after serving his time.
The State of New South Wales has applied for a five-year extended supervision order, which would place conditions on his parole and ensure he is closely monitored in the community.
Phillip Lett has served 26 years in prison for murder. Supplied
The State’s barrister Danielle New argued that Lett, now 58, should be under an extended supervision order when released because he had been effectively institutionalised.
She argued “he has not been on parole and the world is a very different place from 24th December 1992”, which is when Lett was first locked up.
She detailed his post traumatic stress disorder relating to childhood trauma, which she told the court has not been addressed through programs in custody.
Phillip Wayne Lett pictured after his arrest. 9news
“Around the time of the murder, he was reliving his childhood sexual abuse and becoming more angry,” she told the court.
“The stress of the unsupported reintegration elevates the risk of relapse.”
Phillip Lett’s barrister Anton Hughes argued his client had done everything asked of him.
"He had completed all the targeted treatment programs in custody," he said.
The boy's body was found in Penrith in Sydney's west. 9news
"I don’t suggest it wouldn’t be of benefit to have treatment for PTSD, but it doesn’t translate into a risk or high risk."
Mr Hughes said there had been some concern raised about his need for support but told the court he was not going out into the world without any support.
Justice Helen Wilson said Lett "seems to have come to an appreciation of the awful crimes he's committed" and had expressed "genuine remorse" since being incarcerated.
She reserved her decision until a later date.
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