Olivana Loutharis

Pleasure to be here.

That's right, Stockie.

Five months since Matt Wright's sentencing day back on the 12th of December.

So yesterday, 11th of May, was his release date.

And he's now home with his family.

Well, stocky a little bit, yeah.

Corrections is only really responsible for holding people.

They're not really responsible after someone's released.

So essentially, once someone has served their time, they get their clothes, they probably have to do a bunch of really boring paperwork, and then they're free to go.

I actually did learn that if you've had a job in prison, you get your money, so you get paid.

If you don't have a bank account, they'll just give you cash.

I guess in the Northern Territory, it's a little bit of an unusual place.

There's, you know, people spread far and wide over very remote parts of the country.

So corrections will sometimes try to make arrangements for people if they're from a very remote area and they need help getting home.

Or maybe they sometimes drop people to the Casuarina bus stop.

But I'm sure that was not the case for Matt Wright.

I doubt that they were just dropping him off at the Casuarina bus stop.

I'm sure he had a lift home.

Yeah, Stockie, I remember this being quite a significant point on the day of his sentencing, when we were hearing those sentencing submissions from his team, and this was something that came up.

And we always knew that Kaya's due date was going to be right on the edge of Matt Wright's release point.