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Snowtown accomplice now free to go untracked in the Adelaide community

Mark Haydon is also allowed to drink alcohol, go to a pub, and no longer has a curfew.
Mark Haydon co-signed the disused bank vault in Snowtown where the 8 murder victims were later found, Credit: 7NEWS

Snowtown accomplice now free to go untracked in the Adelaide community

Mark Haydon is also allowed to drink alcohol, go to a pub, and no longer has a curfew.

Snowtown murders accomplice Mark Ray Haydon has won a bid in court for more freedom in the community.

The 66-year-old was convicted of seven counts of assisting an offender and for storing bodies in barrels at his Smithfield Plains home in Adelaide’s north.

He also co-signed the lease for the disused bank vault in Snowtown, about 150km north of Adelaide, where the barrels containing eight victims were found.

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Haydon was sentenced to 25 years in prison, backdated to May 21, 1999, the day he was arrested.

On Wednesday, a year since he was released on parole, Hayden was given a new supervision order.

Haydon is now allowed to drink alcohol, go to a pub, will no longer have a curfew, and is not required to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet. He is also not required to report to corrections every week.

Mark Haydon co-signed the disused bank vault in Snowtown where the 8 murder victims were later found, Credit: 7NEWS

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