Sandor Cikos has walked free from prison, less than 17 years after he murdered his wife and two young sons in their West Dapto home.
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Cikos, 55, was granted parole by the State Parole Authority earlier this month on the advice of the Serious Offenders Review Council, which noted his satisfactory behaviour and completion of various programs while in custody.
Citing privacy, the Department of Justice will not reveal the exact date of Cikos’ release; only that it occurred between May 19 and 26.
Cikos served more than 16 years of a maximum 21-year sentence, becoming eligible for parole in July last year.
He will be subject to parole supervision until January 2021. As conditions of his parole he must not have any contact with his victims’ families and cannot visit Parramatta and Blacktown or the local government areas of Wollongong, Wagga and Eurobodalla.
Cikos was sentenced in February 2001 for the 1999 murder of his wife Allison Penrose and sons Jake, 4, and Travis, 15 months.
All three were found dead in their beds just before Christmas. Ms Penrose had been bashed with a lead pipe and suffocated, a plastic bag pulled tight over her head.
Both boys had also been suffocated and were discovered with plastic bags over their heads.
In January 2000, Wollongong Local Court heard Cikos killed after a sex romp soured his and Ms Penrose’s relationship. Ms Penrose reportedly had a fantasy to watch her husband have sex with another woman and when that became a reality she began to physically and verbally abuse Cikos for his “betrayal”.