We were wrong on Bayley: ex-parole head August 22, 2013 - 9:25AM The failure to revoke Adrian Ernest Bayley's parole before he murdered Jill Meagher was a mistake, the former chair of Victoria's parole board says. But Justice Simon Whelan says it was an "explicable" mistake. It was a mistake but it was explicable. It was not a mistake made by people who don't care or by people who don't have the community safety as their paramount concern," he told ABC radio on Thursday. It's the same mistake the police made when they didn't oppose bail, it's the same mistake the magistrate made when he granted bail, it's the same mistake Corrections Victoria made when they requested us not to take action until the appeal was heard. But we were the ultimate decision-makers and we should take ultimate responsibility, which we do. Justice Whelan said he had apologised to Ms Meagher's husband, Tom Meagher, for the mistake and explained how it happened. I told (Mr Meagher) I was terribly sorry that that had happened to him and that he was the victim and his wife was the victim of such a circumstance.