Bashed to death with a bike: should convicted killer John Basikbasik be paid $350,000?

He used it to bash his pregnant defacto wife in an attack so ferocious, both she and her unborn baby died.

Now, fifteen years on, Australia’s human rights watchdog is angling to pay the 51-year-old convicted killer $350,000 for his suffering.

Basikbasik, who came to Australia 30 years ago, served seven years in prison for his crime and a further eight in immigration detention. And despite every immigration minister since 2007 acting to keep him behind bars, Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs has sparked outrage by recommending a bulk payment for Basikbasik’s “arbitrary” imprisonment. Her findings, handed down in a 4000-page report, have sparked a row between the commission, domestic violence groups and the Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

THE MAN BEHIND THE MANSLAUGHTER

Basikbasik was so keen to come to Australia from his native Indonesia in 1985 that he paddled here by canoe. He was granted temporary protection at the time and given a protection visa in January 1986.

Before seeking asylum, Basikbasik had been involved in the West Papuan independence movement, but it wasn’t long after arriving in Australia that he began a life of crime.

From 1986-2000, Basikbasik committed a number of violent offences, culminating in the 2000 bashing of his 28-year-old Australian partner, who was four months’ pregnant. He was sentenced to seven years’ in prison for manslaughter and in 2007 was moved to immigration detention when the Department of Immigration ruled he was not fit to rejoin society.

While in detention, Basikbasik racked up more than 40 infractions, including assault. He is also believed to have fathered 14 children by four different women.

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