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A NOTORIOUS criminal with a history of brutally bashing women has been released from jail on parole despite attempts to keep him locked up until the day he dies.
Gavin Raymond McIntosh, now 43, was sentenced to eight years' jail in 2010 after he and two other men forced entry into an Austins Ferry home to rob its innocent occupants, who were asleep in bed.
He bashed a young woman's head with an iron bar, causing her to fall unconscious and convulse on the floor.
According to Supreme Court judge Helen Wood's published comments on passing judgment, the three men then savagely beat the woman's partner until his skull was visible and fractured, and he too collapsed in convulsions.