A Northern Territory mass murderer will remain behind bars in Western Australia for at least a few more months, after his parole review was delayed while authorities dig for more information.
Douglas Crabbe is serving five consecutive life sentences after he ploughed his road train into a pub near Uluru in Central Australia in 1983, killing five people.
Crabbe has so far served more than 35 years in prison over the attack, for which he has never publicly expressed remorse.
He was up for parole in July this year, but WA's Prisoners Review Board has confirmed to the ABC they have now adjourned his parole review until November 25.
A spokesperson said the board had moved to adjourn Crabbe's case "pending receipt of further information from the Corrective Services division of the Department of Justice".
Once they receive the information, the board is due to file a report on Crabbe's circumstances to WA Attorney-General John Quigley, who has the overarching power to accept or quash the parole.
One of those injured in Crabbe's attack on the Inland Motel near Uluru was Bernadette Schiller, who has written to Mr Quigley and WA Premier Mark McGowan calling for Crabbe to remain in prison.
"The pain and memory of this is still very real for me, I can recall everything that happened on this night," Ms Schiller wrote in the letter, seen by the ABC.
"He destroyed lives and families, there is to this day many people who are left in their own prison caused by Crabbe."
Ms Schiller, who continues to grapple with anxiety and PTSD decades after the incident, wrote that she "absolutely cannot fathom why Crabbe is coming up for parole again".
"The thought of this is so traumatic for me," she wrote.
"If Crabbe is released, this would equate to less than eight years for each person he murdered. My friends' lives are worth more than this amount of time served.
"I beg you to think about, if it was one of your family members who died at his hand, would you think he deserves to be released?
"I truly hope that you seriously consider the impact of this crime on the victims of this heinous act."
Crabbe is an inmate at Acacia Prison, near Perth, where he was transferred to from the Northern Territory to be closer to family members in 2005.
