Meagher killer should have been locked up JILL Meagher's killer should have been locked up after he admitted breaching parole months before he raped and murdered the Melbourne woman, a report has found. In a scathing review of the Victoria's parole system, former High Court justice Ian Callinan found it was "not easy to understand" why the serial rapist wasn't jailed when he was convicted of assaulting a man about eight months before he killed Ms Meagher. "He ought to have been known by then to be a recidivist serious, violent, sexual offender, with a history of being so from a young age and with an established pattern of doing so," he wrote in the report, released on Tuesday. Bayley was on bail while he appealed the assault sentence and on parole for multiple rapes when he killed Ms Meagher as she walked home from a Melbourne pub in September last year. "The Parole Board had both cause and opportunity to cancel Bayley's parole," Mr Callinan said. The case is one of more than a dozen recent murders by parolees in Victoria that were examined as part of Mr Callinan's review. His 122-page report describes a parole board that is overworked, mismanaged and focused on releasing offenders, not community safety. "It has proved to be too easy for serious violent and sexual offenders to obtain and to remain on parole," the report said. In Bayley's case, his parole file was "ill-organised" and didn't even include the names of those who released him in 2010 for rape convictions. He did not even have to appear before the board to be granted parole. The board has no computer database and members make parole decisions in a matter of minutes in most cases, the report found. It recommends the parole board overhaul its priorities so violent offenders are only released when there is a "negligible" risk of reoffending. Serious offenders should also face a two-stage parole review before being released and be forced into applying themselves rather than have their cases heard automatically, the report said. Premier Denis Napthine agreed with the recommendations as he introduced a string of further changes designed to make community safety the top priority of the parole board. "The consequences have been totally and utterly unacceptable," he said of past parole system failures. That will change and that will change from today. But victims are angered it took so many deaths to finally prompt action. "The warning bells were ringing many, many years ago," said Steve Medcraft of the People Against Lenient Sentencing. Twelve people have died to make them accountable. The mother of Sarah Cafferkey, who was murdered by a killer nine days after his parole ended, said she never should have needed to put pressure on the government. "It's disgusting," Noelle Dickson said. But justice advocate Peter Norden cautioned that the system needs better supervision of parolees, not just barring prisoners from release. "What we'll see is people warehoused in prison for another year or two, and then released without effective supervision," he said. The government has already moved to make breaching parole a crime and plans on giving police greater powers to deal with those who breach parole. The state opposition stressed how more funding was key while the Adult Parole Board vowed it's ready for more change. Dr Napthine said most of the board will be replaced within a year.