Vic double murderer on run for five days

A double murderer out on parole who cut off his ankle bracelet has been on the run from Victorian police for five days.

John Wallace Lindrea was last seen in the Warrnambool area on Good Friday, a day after his parole was cancelled.

"He is a threat to the community purely by the convictions that he has and his propensity for violence," Detective Superintendent Peter De Santo told reporters on Tuesday.

The 54-year-old once tried to escape Barwon Prison with armed robber Christopher Dean "Badness" Binse when they cut their way out of their cells, but he was recaptured inside the prison grounds.

Lindrea had been serving a 20-year minimum jail term over the 1993 murders of Kaelene McDonald and Andrew Johns after gate crashing a party in Kinglake.

Det Supt De Santo could not reveal why Lindrea's parole had been revoked, but did say his tracking device was no longer working.

"We believe the ankle bracelet has been cut," he said.

Lindrea and his partner Sally Roach, 46, may be travelling in a white 2011 Hyundai iX35 wagon with registration YTK 659.