Board admits indefensible mistake: Meagher VICTORIA'S parole board have admitted they made an indefensible mistake when they failed to imprison Adrian Ernest Bayley after he breached parole, the husband of his murder victim says. Tom Meagher, whose wife Jill was murdered by Bayley in a Brunswick laneway last September, said the Adult Parole Board made the admission in a recent meeting he had with them. "They admitted that was an indefensible mistake which I was surprised at, but then again it is indefensible," he told the ABC's 7.30 program. It is also confronting to know that this was so easily preventable. It was revealed on Tuesday that when the board decided to release Bayley on parole on rape charges, the decision was based on an ill-organised file and they didn't even speak to him. When Bayley attacked a man in Geelong 18 months later, the board didn't act to get him off the streets. When Bayley raped and murdered Ms Meagher, he was both on parole and on bail while he appealed the assault sentence. "What I don't understand is especially after the attack in Geelong how they didn't reinforce the curfew at least is baffling," Mr Meagher said. So they seem to have done nothing after the incident in Geelong which defies belief really. Mr Meagher said the board made apologises for a series of mistakes in their decision making on the case. "It's a real shame that something like this needs to happen before people take notice," he said. I'm not angry I just want people to do what they say they are going to do. Former High Court justice Ian Callinan is scathing of the missed opportunities to put Bayley back behind bars in his report on the state's parole system, a review prompted by the Meagher case. He notes there was reluctance from some people to discuss the case. Mr Callinan was given Bayley's parole file but said it was deficient in not disclosing the names of the panel members who granted him parole. The file itself was ill-organised, with no single document detailing a straightforward complete chronology of Bayley's criminal history. Most cases go before an under-resourced parole board for only a few minutes. Mr Meagher said the board's chair told him its funding was $2.5 million a year, one sixth of the New South Wales board's budget. Corrections Minister Ed O'Donohue confirmed the decision to release Bayley on parole in March 2010 was made on a paper assessment. "My understanding is that was made on the papers but that's a decision and a matter for the parole board," he said. Bayley was sentenced to three months' jail in February 2012 for the Geelong assault but was granted bail while he appealed. Mr Callinan says it is "not easy to understand" why Bayley wasn't jailed. Bayley, 42, was jailed for life in June with a minimum term of 35 years after pleading guilty to Ms Meagher's rape and murder. He is appealing his sentence. The parole board did not comment on the Bayley case on Tuesday.