Dylan Voller, the teenaged Northern Territory detainee at the centre of the Don Dale Detention Centre abuse scandal and subsequent Royal Commission, has successfully applied for bail – and could secure release from jail as early as Monday.
The Northern Territory Supreme Court granted Voller bail after considering his allegations against staff at Don Dale. You can read some of his (honestly horrific) recollections on his time in incarceration here.
Last year, confronting images of Voller strapped into a chair and covered with a hood were an integral part of ABC’s Four Corners report into institutional abuse at youth detention centres in the NT.
Judge Barr said it’d be “a test run to see if the court could have sufficient confidence in Mr Voller,” who will face court again after his time at BushMob to reassess his sentence.
