A woman in a suburban Woolworths had a chilling encounter with trans ax attacker Evie Amati when the violent offender was allowed to wander outside prison walls with an ankle monitor.
The shocked shopper, who lives near a halfway house for female offenders, was at the Lennox Village shopping center in Emu Plains, in Sydney’s western end, in December when she saw “a large, tattooed man in a dress ” who wore a satellite tracking anklet at Woolies. .
The sighting was several weeks before Amati’s release from prison, where he was serving time for three attempted murders.
The woman said when she saw Amati, she thought she was ‘masculine’ and “he had very bad energy.” The woman said she made eye contact with the ax attacker, “and her blood ran cold.”
But it was only after Daily Mail Australia photographed Amati on parole on January 6 that the woman realized the person she had seen “was an axe-wielding psychopath.”
Amati walked from the Bolwara Women’s Transition Center to a friend who was waiting in a car, looking noticeably fatter since her crime and sporting macabre tattoos such as one depicting a zombie eating “brain soup.”
Amati, who laughed with delight as she tasted freedom, had an amateur prison tattoo reading “DEAD” on her left hand and questioned Daily Mail Australia’s right to photograph her release.
Amati, now 32, was released on parole after serving eight years for the attempted ax murder of three people at the Enmore 7-Eleven, including a man buying a cake and a woman buying milk at 2 :20am in Sydney’s inner western suburbs.
A woman saw “a large tattooed man in a dress” and a satellite tracking anklet in a suburban Woolies in December. It was ‘axe-wielding psychopath’ Evie Amati (above) out shopping while still serving her sentence for attempted murder.

The woman said that when she saw Amati she thought he was ‘a man’ and ‘had very bad energy’.

It was only when the woman read Daily Mail Australia’s coverage of Amati’s release that she realized the person at Woolies was the ax attacker who randomly attacked people with an ax (pictured) in the inner west of Sydney in 2017.
While taking a cocktail of antidepressants, cannabis, MDA ‘love drug’ and hormonal medications from gender reassignment surgery, Amati became enraged after a failed Tinder date with a woman and grabbed a 2kg ax and a knife. 18 cm to the servo closest to it. home.
Amati’s terrifying attacks on January 7, 2017 were recorded on the store’s security cameras. She was convicted at trial and imprisoned in a series of women’s prisons before entering the halfway house just over a year before her release.
Bolwara inmates are allowed to leave the facility with satellite trackers and walk to the shops at Lennox Village, 30 minutes away.
The woman who saw Amati at Lennox Village Woolies alerted women’s rights activist Angie Jones, who campaigns for women-only spaces, including prisons and women’s correctional centres.
Ms Jones said in X that the woman was now “eager to meet” Amati in the community.
“She’s quite distraught to discover it was actually Amati, because she felt quite intimidated seeing an identified trans man who was obviously a criminal in the shops, let alone one of her notoriety.
‘Imagine having to share a prison cell or transitional housing with him?’
Bolwara, which has five group homes at its Emu Plains Correctional Center facility, 57 kilometers west of Sydney, “focuses on Aboriginal women and provides support to women who have a history of alcohol and other drug use.”

The Emu Plains Woolworths woman says she had a chilling encounter with trans attacker Evie Amati just weeks before the violent offender was released from the Bolwara Women’s Transition Center on January 6 (above).

Amati showed off her ghoulish tattoos while shopping at Woolies, including this amateur jail ink ‘DEAD’ on the fingers of her left hand.

The woman said she saw Amati at the Lennox Village Woolworths (above)

Evie walks into Enmore 7-Eleven around 2:20 am with a 2kg ax and an 18cm knife in her back pocket. One of his victims, Sharon Hacker, is at the register, right, buying milk.

Amati casually walks towards the servo with her axe, ready to start her rampage.
Daily Mail Australia learned through union contacts that before he offended, Amati was seen by his Sydney Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) colleagues as having “a huge sense of entitlement”.
Amati grew up in a comfortable inner-city suburb of Perth and was the son of Western Australian union royalty. She topped the state in English and valedictorian of WA’s top public school in English literature, ancient history and political science.
Amati, aged 17, moved to Sydney and, through her parents, WA union leaders, got a job as an organizer in the CPSU, where she was notably “arrogant and lazy” at work.
Amati underwent gender reassignment surgery in Thailand in 2016. Post-surgical pain and readjustment was a major point in her mental health defense, which was rejected by a New South Wales District Court jury in 2018.
Two months before the attacks, Amati bought the ax with which he tried to kill senior project coordinator Ben Rimmer, social worker Sharon Hacker and traveling British tourist Shayne Redwood, and practiced his swing on an old sofa.
In 2019, while fighting the extension of his minimum sentence to eight years, Rimmer said: “If I hadn’t turned my head at the last minute, I would have cut my head in half.”
It was a “bad vibe” he had also picked up from Amati while she was casually chatting with him at the cash register of Enmore’s servo (he thought his ax was a stage prop) that saved his life.

Evie Amati (top)

Ben Rimmer – whose head Amati ‘almost split in two’
Mr Rimmer has an incomplete memory of the ax blow, but from watching CCTV footage of the encounter he knows he had a sudden bad feeling about Amati.
‘My expression changes to a sort of ‘here we go’. I turned around to pay because Sharon was gone.
‘I remember they hit me. But I turned around at the last minute, otherwise she would have sliced my head right through the front of my face.
“I guess I should have seen it coming.”
He turned and Amati avoided inflicting death or brain damage and blindness by a millimeter or two.
‘She went there to kill. It’s pure luck that I’m alive and she’s not sorry. “She’s intelligent… calculating,” he said.
‘He had a knife in his back pocket. I think the knife could have done more damage than the ax… it could have finished us off.
“We haven’t heard anything else from her.”
Amati is on parole until January 6, 2031 and until then is prohibited from consuming alcohol, illicit drugs and entering Sydney’s CBD or inner western suburbs.