By Sam Sherwood of RNZ A man who has twice been ruled insane after committing two separate killings can now be named. RNZ can reveal the man is Leslie Raymond Parr, who killed two people more than two decades apart – beheading his partner, Fiona Maulolo, in 1997, and then in 2024 fatally stabbing his mother, Heather Condon. The revelations of a second killing prompted the Chief Victims Adviser to call for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into forensic mental health facilities. A High Court judge said the offending occurred “against a backdrop of apparent significant failures in the mental health system”. Parr’s family believes the mental health system let both him, and his mother, down. RNZ earlier revealed the case, which had been shrouded in secrecy. However, an appeal against name suppression meant it was not possible to publish details about either killing. That suppression lapsed on Monday after the Supreme Court did not grant leave to appeal. An appeal was heard in the Court of Appeal in August before president Justice French, Justice Campbell and Justice Collins. In a decision released last year, the court dismissed Parr’s appeal. The court said the fact Parr had again killed someone closely connected to him whilst suffering from mental illness was a matter of “overwhelming public interest”. It can now be reported that Parr killed his partner, Maulolo, in April 1997. Maulolo was decapitated with her head found in a plastic bag in a clothes dryer. Forensic evidence revealed Parr had driven a chisel multiple times into her heart before decapitating her. Parr, who had a history of schizophrenia, told police he killed her after she told him to. “She said she was Satan and I had to kill her,” he said. Fiona Maulolo. Photo / Supplied A year before the killing he was made a compulsory patient for six months after attacking a policeman. However, nine days later he was discharged by psychiatrist Linda Astor without even meeting him. Astor later fled the country and was unmasked as a bogus psychiatrist. A jury found Parr not guilty by reason of insanity. A judge ordered he be detained in a special secure unit and not freed without the health minister’s authority. A coroner later said Parr’s treatment had been seriously deficient. To be released into the community after being designated a special patient requires the sign-off of the Minister of Health, the Attorney-General and the Director of Mental Health. Parr was released back in the community in 2012. In 2021, his status was changed to being a patient under the Mental Health Act. At the time of his second killing, he was subject to a Compulsory Treatment Order. Health NZ earlier confirmed an external review of the care Parr received leading up to the offending was under way. The second killing In the weeks leading up to his mother’s death, Parr’s mental health was “rapidly declining,” Justice Karen Grau said. In May 2024, following an altercation between Parr and a relative he was admitted to a mental health facility. He was released after around a week on May 30. Following his release, he became preoccupied with the loss of his car keys and was having difficulties with a relationship he was in. He was also using cannabis. Court documents reveal that about 6pm on June 4 last year, Parr and his mother were at a property in Whanganui. An incident occurred between the pair and Parr, armed with a knife, stabbed his mother in the chest. He then left the address, driving his car to another address to see an associate, arriving about 6.20pm. He then walked into the address and sat on the doorstep. Parr asked his associate: “Cuz do you know where to get a gun?” He said he needed a gun because the Mongrel Mob were after him. He then made a call to his sister, and a plan was made to go to Raetihi. Parr and his associate left the property in Parr’s car. As they travelled past Whanganui Girls’ College, Parr told his associate: “Cuz I’ve killed mum”. The associate stopped the car...