A woman whose boyfriend, Wayne Keith Smith, was murdered by Haigh in the 1970s said she understood there were reasons for his being freed but hoped there would be no repeat. The woman was carrying Smith's child when he was shot dead by Haigh in his bed in St Kilda.
"Hopefully, the next time he gets out it will be in a pine box,'' the woman said.
"I'm in two minds about this. Look, I suppose people should be allowed to go to a funeral like that, but part of me says 'stuff him'.''
Haigh's crimes sickened Victorians. Among the worst was his shooting of nine-year-old Danny Mitchell, gunned down because he had seen Haigh kill his mother Sheryle Gardner moments earlier at Ripponlea.
Other victims were:
TATTSLOTTO agency worker Evelyn Abrahams, 58, who was blasted to death with a shotgun during a robbery at Windsor.
PIZZA shop operator and father of two Bruno Cingolani, 45, who was shot in a hold-up at his South Caulfield business.
GIRLFRIEND Lisa Maude Brearley, 19, who was stabbed 157 times after he forced her at knife-point to have sex with another man at Olinda.
SEX offender Donald George Hatherley who was hanged in jail.
All apart from Hatherley died in a rampage between September 1978 and August 1979. Haigh is serving six life sentences in prison with no parole.
A Corrections Victoria spokesman said the escort went off without incident. "Highly trained, heavily armed guards escorted the prisoner to a short funeral service where there was a strong police presence, after which he was immediately returned to maximum security prison where he will spend the rest of his life,'' the spokesman said.
"Every application to attend a funeral is considered on its own merits and where there is a risk to the community the request is denied.''
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