Convicted killer Michael Ibrahim will get a second chance at parole after a "slip up" by authorities meant he was denied access to adverse intelligence allegedly obtained by prison bosses.
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Ibrahim, the younger brother of underworld figure Hassan Sam Ibrahim and nightclub boss John Ibrahim, has served more than his six-and-a-half-year minimum sentence for the 2006 manslaughter of Robin Nassour, brother of Fat Pizza comedian George Nassour.
He became eligible for parole in March last year but it was refused by the State Parole Authority on the basis it was "not in the public interest given Ibrahim's risk of reoffending and demonstrated inability to adopt to normal lawful community life".
It was again refused in April this year on the basis of intelligence from both police and Corrective Services.
In the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday Justice Richard Button quashed the Parole Authority's decision and ordered a new hearing to take place "promptly".
Justice Button also ordered the Parole Authority pay Ibrahim's legal costs of $17,997 because the error was only discovered after Ibrahim's lawyers sought to appeal the refusal on other grounds.
Justice Button said Ibrahim had been denied procedural fairness during the April hearing because the Parole Authority had failed to give Ibrahim a summary of intelligence collected by Corrective Services which was taken into account when parole was refused.
In April 2008 Ibrahim was sentenced to a maximum nine years and four months' jail for his role in the fatal stabbing of Robin Nassour at an apartment block in Chiswick in Sydney's inner west.
His full sentence expires on January 15, 2016.
In 2012 Ibrahim was found not guilty of a 2009 charge of conspiracy to murder nightclub owner John Macris. The Crown had alleged he orchestrated the crime from behind bars.
