EXCLUSIVE
Ax attacker Evie Amati laughed in the sun as she was released from jail, eight years to the day after her horrific attempted murder of customers at a Sydney 7-Eleven outlet.
Amati, a trans woman, crushed a man’s head with a huge ax at an Enmore gas station on January 6, 2017 before attacking a customer and another man.
But at 9.30am on Monday, Amati, 32, emerged from the Bolwara Transition Center at Emu Plains women’s prison smiling, sporting a new look and a macabre prison tattoo.
She came out into the daylight looking excited and smiling broadly, and she had so many boxes and bags that she needed a large cart to transport them out of the jail.
Amati, dressed in jeans, Vans skater shoes and a maroon sleeveless top, was quickly escorted from custody to a waiting friend’s car before she was taken away.
With polished bright pink nails, full makeup, and bleached blonde hair with a thick black streak, Amati had the word “DEAD” written in large blue letters on the knuckles of her left hand.
Amati also showed off other disturbing tattoos on his arm, including a skeleton dressed in a suit and a zombie eating a can of Campbell’s labeled “Brain Soup.”
She ignored Daily Mail Australia’s questions about her crimes before getting into the car with a black Calvin Klein suitcase, documents and her multiple bags.
Ax attacker Evie Amati laughed when she was released from prison eight years after committing the horrific 7-Eleven murder attempts.
Showing off a new look and a macabre prison tattoo, the offender, now 32, walked out of the Bolwara Transition Center at Emu Plains Women’s Prison at 9.30am on Monday.
Above is the ax attack in question. Evie Amati punched Ben Rimmer in the face and then pointed the 2kg gun at Sharon Hacker’s skull during her 2017 7-Eleven attack.
With a friend driving, Amati left the prison and took the M4 motorway.
His parole conditions prohibit him from entering Sydney’s CBD. the suburbs of Annandale, Petersham, Newtown and Sydenham, and for taking illicit drugs or drinking alcohol.
Amati appeared to be taller than the woman caught on CCTV casually entering the Enmore service station with a 2kg ax and hiding an 18cm knife in her back pocket at 2.20am on January 6, 2017. .
Not only did the terrifying brutality of what Amati did to innocent suburban 7-Eleven customers shock the nation, but so did his relatively short sentence.
Even with an increased sentence following a public outcry and an appeal by prosecutors, Amati will be free of any parole supervision in six years and will be able to apply to be transferred back to her home state of Western Australia before then.
On the morning of her offences, Amati had consumed vodka, cannabis, MDMA, antidepressants and transgender hormones and was consumed with rage.
Amati had the word ‘DEAD’ written in amateurish blue letters on the fingers of his left hand.
Amati did not answer questions from Daily Mail Australia about his crimes or his imprisonment before getting into the car with a black Calvin Klein suitcase, documents and several bags.
Wearing jeans, Vans skater shoes and a maroon sleeveless top, the tattoos visible on Amati’s arm depicted a skeleton dressed in a suit and a zombie eating a can of ‘BRAIN SOUP’.
Seen leaving prison on Monday, Amati will be free of any parole supervision within six years and before then can apply to be transferred back to her home state of Western Australia.
After undergoing transition surgery in Thailand in 2016, Amati experienced post-operative pain and broke up with his girlfriend. The band in which she was a drummer had also disbanded.
Through her union leader parents, she had landed a job in Sydney with the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), where a colleague told the Mail she was seen as lazy, arrogant and entitled.
On the night in question, after a failed Tinder date, he sent a friend a Facebook message saying: ‘I’m“Most people deserve to die, I hate people” and he went home to look for the ax he had bought two months before.
After walking 1,500 feet from her house, she entered the Enmore 7-Eleven, walked around the store, and approached Ben Rimmer as he waited at the register to buy a pie.
As Mr Rimmer later told the Mail: “If I hadn’t turned my head at the last minute, she would have cut my head in half.”
Amati slammed the ax into Mr. Rimmer’s face. He didn’t immediately realize what had happened, other than “it was like a real hit.”
“It didn’t register right away, it took about 30 seconds,” he said. ‘I fell to the ground. He was face down, bleeding profusely.
Beginning to panic that he might bleed, so fast and the blood flowing from his face, Rimmer took off his shirt and said, “I tied it around my head trying to stop it.”
At that time he did not know that Amati had also hit the customer in front of him, who had just bought a carton of milk, with his ax.
Amati lunged for Sharon Hacker’s head, and as she lay helpless on the ground, Amati delivered a second vicious blow that would have undoubtedly killed her, but narrowly missed.
While Amati has been freed after eight years, Ben Rimmer will spend the rest of his life with four titanium plates in his face, including a moving orbital plate that he can feel every time he touches it.
Amati is caught on CCTV casually walking towards Enmore service station with a 2kg ax and hiding an 18cm knife in her back pocket at 2.20am on 6 January 2017.
Police and paramedics told Rimmer under no circumstances to swallow the blood. “It was almost impossible,” he said as the facial wounds inflicted by Amati caused his throat to bleed.
Amati then ran over Ms Hacker, through the petrol station compartments and onto the road, where he attacked a third victim, Shane Redwood.
Inside the 7-Eleven, bleeding on the floor and screaming in panic as the pain began, Rimmer yelled at the owner to close the store doors, fearing Amati would return to finish them off.
He began vomiting due to his injuries.
Amati was found guilty of wounding with intent to murder, causing grievous bodily harm with intent to murder and attempting to wound with intent to murder in the New South Wales District Court in 2018.
The jury found her guilty, but there was widespread outrage at the short sentence Amati received (four and a half years) before she was successfully appealed.
The maximum penalty for each crime is 25 years in prison, but even after appeal, Amati’s maximum sentence is still only 14 years.
The minimum sentence, eight years, expired on Monday and NSW Community Corrections recommended parole, arguing that Amati’ has completed his program in custody.
“(She) has participated in educational and vocational programs, and has participated in professional interventions to address mental health, substance abuse and criminal behavior issues,” the New South Wales State Probation Authority said.
“Amati has a medium/low risk of recidivism.”
Amati’s victims suffer lifelong physical injuries and mental trauma.
After a failed Tinder date, he sent a friend a Facebook message that said, “Most people deserve to die, I hate people” and went home to get the ax he’d bought two months earlier. .
Sharon Hacker suffered stabbing pain in her arm, chest pain, lost 25kg, suffers continuous nerve pain and her daughter became agoraphobic and was terrified of going out at night.
Ben Rimmer will spend the rest of his life with four titanium plates in his face, including a moving orbital plate that he can feel every time he touches it.
The CCA appeal noted that if the cut had been “a millimeter or two too high, it would have resulted in a life-threatening threat…massive brain hemorrhage and loss of vision” for Rimmer.
As happy, smiling new release Evie Amati showed off her new look outside prison walls on Monday before embarking on her new life, her companion questioned the Mail’s right to photograph the criminal’s journey to freedom.
Ben Rimmer previously told the Mail that Amati would ‘easily serve his sentence and be granted parole’. It turned out perfect, maybe better than he expected.
‘She went there to kill. It’s pure luck that I’m alive and she’s not sorry. He’s smart… calculating.
The Mail has learned that Amati, who has been detained in three different women’s prisons since her arrest two years ago, has used her intelligence and skills as a former union organizer to pressure other inmates in the system.
Born Karl Amati, she claimed in an affidavit opposing her sentence increase in 2019 that she was “detransitioning” back to being a man.
By all accounts that has not happened.