The last Parole Board reports written about double murderer Paul Tainui describe him as faultless, having a good rapport with staff and consistently assessed as posing a low risk of reoffending.
The reports are part of the evidence in the dual coronial inquest in Christchurch looking into Nicole Tuxford's rape and murder and his first victim's father's suspected suicide.
Double rapist and murderer Paul Tainui - or Paul Wilson - is now a known "manipulator", "liar" and "psychopath".
But descriptions of him in Parole Board reports show a very different perception.
On his fifth and final parole report, it said:
- At times his behaviour is "exemplary" and "faultless"
- Consistently assessed as posing a low risk of reoffending
- He is "aware of his high-risk situations and has appropriate strategies to address them"
- And "will not pose an undue risk to the safety of the community, or any members of it"
His first victim's family warned the board multiple times about his cunning and manipulative personality. They'd given him many second chances after his earlier violent acts before he brutally killed Kimberley Schroder.
"We told the Parole Board and Corrections representatives about our lived experience of being completely taken in by Wilson, and just how dangerously manipulative he was," Kimberley's mother Nancy Schroder said.
Her best friend Jennifer Keogan also said:
"It seemed obvious to us that Wilson was continuing to manipulate people by being the 'model prisoner'. It seemed like we were up against Corrections who were supporting his release and didn't seem to take on board anything we said.
"Wilson pulled the wool over the eyes of psychologists, Corrections officers and, finally, the Parole Board."
Wilson - or Tainui - has this week admitted to the Coroner that's exactly what he did.
Tainui raped and murdered two women, the second Nicole Tuxford while on parole. His first victim's father Gary Schroder also died from a suspected suicide.
His first victim's best friend told the court when police visited to tell her Tainui had killed again, she stopped them and said: "Let me guess, he was infatuated with her, stalked her for weeks, terrorised her, raped her and then cut her throat."
"And he confirmed and he said, 'You're pretty much spot on'," Keogan said.
The Parole Board members have name suppression and are immune from liability unless done "in bad faith".
"I don't believe that anybody should have interim name suppression or be immune from this process," Keogan said.
"I think in a lot of ways every single agency needs to be accountable including his workplace for what has happened."
Nancy Schroder, a mother who has now lost both her husband and her daughter, told the court: "As a family we have been let down by every department. Kim got a death sentence, we got life, Wilson or Tainui got bed and breakfast."
