A third asylum seeker who was freed by the High Court has been arrested – this time, a registered sex offender who is the ringleader of a child exploitation gang.
Emran Dad, 33, was arrested in Dandenong, south-east of Melbourne, for allegedly making contact with minors.
He has previously been jailed for having sex with an underage girl in exchange for cigarettes.
It comes after it was revealed on Monday night that two freed detainees had been arrested by Australian authorities.
Mohammed Ali Nadari was arrested in western Sydney last weekend just six days after being released following a controversial High Court decision.
He has a criminal history including serious crimes of violence, sex and firearms offences. Nadari was arrested for drug offences over the weekend.
Afghan refugee Aliyawar Yawari, 65, was arrested at the Pavlos Motel in Pooraka in Adelaide‘s north on Saturday and charged with indecently assaulting a female guest.
Pressure continues to mount for Anthony Albanese to sack Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil (pictured) and Immigration Minister Andrew Giles over the detention debacle
The ministers are facing calls from the Coalition to resign after three of the freed detainees were charged with serious offences within weeks of their release (pictured, Andrew Giles)
Afghan refugee Aliyawar Yawari was deemed a ‘danger to the Australian community’ by a South Australian judge in 2016 following attacks on three elderly women in 2013 and 2014
The manager of Pavlos Motel – who gave the name Happy Mann when contacted by Daily Mail Australia – said Yawari had seemed like an ideal guest until the police turned up and told him of the alleged assault.
‘He was really good,’ Mr Mann said.
‘He just talked to me a few times but it was all good, I didn’t feel suspicious of anything.’
Mr Mann said Yawari had been staying at the motel for a ‘couple of weeks’ and denied any knowledge of the alleged assault.
‘Nobody knows what happened – just the police know. They told us yesterday that he’d been charged,’ Mr Mann said.
Guri Bhullar, who works on the motel’s front desk, later confirmed Yawari had checked in on 14 November and described him as ‘no trouble, always quiet – a good guest’.
‘He didn’t like to speak much, he didn’t come to reception too often so we didn’t have much chat,’ Mr Bhullar said.
‘He was a quiet person, not a troublesome person: he used to stay in his own room.
Yawari is before the courts.
Victoria Police told Daily Mail Australia: ‘Police have arrested a man today after he breached his reporting obligations as a registered sex offender.
‘The 33-year-old was arrested in Dandenong this morning without incident.
‘He is currently being interviewed by police and further updates will be provided as the matter progresses.
‘Victoria Police can confirm the man is one of the detainees recently released following a High Court ruling. Victoria Police is always proactive in addressing community risk presented by those who would commit criminal acts.’
Opposition immigration spokesman Dan Tehan said on Tuesday it was time for Mr Albanese to do the ‘right thing’ and ask Ms O’Neil and Mr Giles to resign
It comes as pressure mounts for Anthony Albanese to sack Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil and Immigration Minister Andrew Giles over the detention debacle.
The ministers are facing calls from the Coalition to resign after one of the freed detainees was charged with a serious sexual assault within weeks of his release, and a second was arrested for drug offences.
Opposition immigration spokesman Dan Tehan said on Tuesday: ‘The time has come for the Prime Minister to do the right thing and ask for these ministers to resign, and if they don’t he should sack them.’
The pressure for heads to roll has only increased since it was revealed that the mass release could have been avoided had the Labor government released just one detainee: the Rohingya paedophile known as NZYQ, who has been in detention since serving a prison sentence for child sexual abuse and whose case the High Court challenge was based on.
But Disability Services Minister Bill Shorten said it made no sense to be demanding politicians be sacked while the judges who made the ruling were immune to such action due to the separation of powers.
‘The logic of that is that the High Court should resign,’ he said.
‘If you really think that there was some way to prevent this, the reality is the High Court has made its decision. That is their right and prerogative in our judicial system.’
Mr Shorten argued both ministers had moved with ‘utmost speed’ to enact laws that would see the released detainees put back into preventative detention if they were assessed to be a risk to public safety.
‘The High Court has made a decision, we’ve had to respond very quickly and there is a law in the Senate today which [the Coalition] can vote for to keep people safe,’ he said.
Mr Tehan accused the government of failing to adequately prepare for the possibility of the High Court ruling that indefinite immigration detention was illegal.
‘We would have been making sure that in the months leading up to the High Court decision that we were looking at what legislation we could put in place to keep the community safe,’ he said.
‘The warnings were put out that there was a real worry that these people would reoffend, and that, sadly, it looks like allegedly that is what’s happened.’