A victim of a high-profile child predator who once ran a refuge for homeless children has issued a chilling warning after the dangerous offender was released from jail with the details of his whereabouts being kept a closely guarded secret.
Simon Davies, 69, groomed vulnerable boys in Sydney’s Kings Cross during the 1980s and was released from custody on Tuesday after serving less than five years.
Davies, a former adviser to the Australian, US and British governments, fled the country before a global manhunt eventually saw him extradited from the Netherlands in 2021 to face trial.
After pleading guilty to five child abuse charges, including buggery, he was sentenced to ten years in jail, with a non-parole period of six years and three months.
Now one of his victims, Glen Fisher, has broken his silence with a stark warning about the man he says destroyed countless young lives.
‘This guy is a narcissistic abuser and there is no doubt in my mind that he will reoffend,’ he told Daily Mail.
‘The world needs to know this man and I will make sure they do.
‘He ran a children’s refuge for the most vulnerable kids on the street, many of whom have since passed away.
Simon Davies, 69, (pictured) groomed vulnerable boys in Kings Cross during the 1980s and was released from custody on Tuesday
Glen Fisher, has broken his silence with a stark warning about the man he says destroyed countless young lives
Davies ran this shelter for vulnerable kids in Sydney’s Kings Cross
‘Many of whom we’ll never hear from because they couldn’t find their voice. I don’t just speak for me, I speak for them. I’m angry, but I’m not broken.’
NSW State Parole Authority confirmed Davies had faced a hearing in December and would be transferred into the custody of Australian Border Force ahead of deportation to the UK.
Mr Fisher says because he is a victim, he was informed ahead of time and also told his abuser would be held at a deportation facility.
However the statement also noted that ‘…if he remains or returns to Australia, he will be subject to mandatory electronic monitoring and must comply with the following parole conditions’.
Australian Border Force said it could not confirm if or when Davies would be deported or release any further information about him because of privacy restrictions.
Mr Fisher has slammed the lack of transparency and says the public deserves to know exactly where Davies is at all times.
He also issued a blunt message directly to the convicted predator.
‘This is to you, Simon, you’re a f***ing koala bear – a protected species,’ he said.
‘I think it’s unfair, you’ll be taken from the jail by Border Force, put into some kind of secluded area and then gently put onto the plane.
Glen Fisher was just 14 when he found himself living on the streets
Mr Fisher wants everyone to know the whereabouts of his abuser
‘And once you get off the plane, you won’t even have to wear a monitor or report to anyone.’
Mr Fisher was just 14 when he found himself living on the streets and moved into the Homeless Children’s Association hostel.
Along with dozens of other vulnerable boys, he was told he would receive help getting his life together.
Instead, he endured years of abuse at the hands of men who used their positions of trust to prey on the young people placed in their care.
Mr Fisher gave evidence against Davies in 1996, named him again in statements in 2012 and once more in 2015 during hearings before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
But despite the repeated allegations and investigations, Davies had already fled Australia in 1993.
An arrest warrant was issued for him in 2016, followed by an Interpol red notice the following year, as authorities launched a global appeal to track him down.
‘The system is a joke, they put out a red notice on him and somehow he got to the Netherlands and negotiated 17 charges down to just five,’ said Fisher.
Davies was extradited from the Netherlands to Australia in 2021
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‘But that little frightened boy that he remembers is now guarded by a very different man.
‘And when he gets back to the UK, I want him to be branded for the rest of his life as the serial grub that he is.’
Mr Fisher bravely waived his right to anonymity during the trials and says he did so to protect children everywhere.
He has also written a book, Predators Paradise, A Journey Of Survival And Resilience.
He added: ‘I am going to make it my mission to make sure the whole world knows what he did. This voice will never be silenced.’
