Letters sent from behind bars by a disgraced paedophile politician who plied his young victims with heroin and cannabis before sexually abusing them have been revealed.
Disgraced MP Milton Orkopoulos, former minister for the NSW Labor party, was convicted on child sex charges and the supply of drugs in May 2008 and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Almost a decade into his sentence at Kirkconnell Correctional Centre, near Bathurst, intimate letters Orkopoulos wrote from behind bars have surfaced.
Disgraced MP Milton Orkopoulos (outside court), former minister for the NSW Labor party, was convicted on child sex charges and the supply of drugs and sentenced to 14 years in prison in May 2008
The letters detail many complaints about prison life including inmates’ accents, his recovery from a jail bashing, and the wait he faced to join a sex-offender rehabilitation program.
In his letters, sent to a high-profile former inmate, Orkopoulos, now 60, spoke about the current political environment, and Malcolm Turnbull’s rise to the top.
‘[The Liberal] party is stuffed – poor old Malcolm will not be given a chance to shine by the small people in the party, and he hasn’t the force or personality to tell Abbott and co to get f***ed,’ he wrote in December 2016, according to The Daily Telegraph.
In another letter, Orkopoulos said a fellow inmate’s Chinese accent made him want to pull his hair out.
Orkopoulos also criticised the department of corrective services, comparing it to the ‘mass stupidity’ of the US for electing Trump.
Orkopoulos (outside court in 2008) also criticised the department of corrective services, comparing it to the ‘mass stupidity’ of the US for electing Trump
Almost a decade into his sentence at Kirkconnell Correctional Centre (pictured), near Bathurst, letters Orkopoulos wrote from behind bars have surfaced
In the letters, which were signed ‘love Milly’, Orkopoulos grieved about his inability to undergo a sex-offender program.
‘I applied three years ago to the CORE moderate program and wrote every six months reminding them time was running out,’ he said.
‘Guess what! Time has run out. The parole [board] has approved my address for next year but I have to be ‘treated’ first.’
The State Parole Authority denied Orkopoulos’ request for parole in January because he had not finished the sex offenders’ program.
Orkopoulos became eligible for parole nine years and three months after he was jailed.
The State Parole Authority denied Orkopoulos’ (pictured) request for parole in January because he had not finished the sex offenders’ program