The State Government last night confirmed Gabriel would be moved as part of Victoria's commitment to the National Mental Health Plan to "facilitate the movement of involuntary and forensic patients between states for therapeutic purposes".
An application for Gabriel to be transferred to Victoria in 2003 was blocked by the Victorian Government.
The then Attorney-General Rob Hulls said at the time that Gabriel was unlikely to be transferred until he and his family appreciated the reasons for his continuing treatment and detention.
Gabriel, originally from Keilor, fatally stabbed 17-year-old Janaya Clarke, 13 times on November 9, 1998, on chevron Island on the Gold Coast after picking her up when she was hitchhiking.
Ms Clarke's family said Gabriel's interstate move to Victoria would not impede their promise to know "exactly what he is up to".
Ms Clarke's mother, Robyn Clarke, would not comment yesterday, but a close family friend said distance would not prevent them upholding a vow.
"(Robyn) made a promise to (Gabriel) that we will know exactly what he is up to until the day we die," the friend said.
The friend said Robyn Clarke was glad her daughter's killer relocated.
"As far as she's concerned, the farther he is away from her the better ... she tries her best not to even give him a second thought, but his ugly head always pops up."
Despite being ruled criminally insane and unfit to stand trial for murder due to drug and alcohol-induced psychosis, Gabriel's passport was not taken away and he escaped from a Brisbane mental institution in 2001 and fled to Victoria.
Gabriel's parents, John and Alessandra Gabriel, were convicted and fined $300 each for helping him leave the country.
He flew to Italy and New Zealand.
A Victorian Government spokesman last night said state laws throughout the country allowed for the transfer of forensic patients, and that forensic patients moved to Victoria would be detained in Thomas Embling Hospital.
It is believed Gabriel will be sedated and guarded as he travels to Victoria soon, but it is not known when he will leave or how he will travel.
Under Victorian legislation, he will be subjected to review by the Victorian Supreme Court every six months.
heraldsun.com.au
The government allegedly maintains that it is tough on crime, and employs propaganda commercials that show little tolerance, but this could not be further from the truth, as stories like this show otherwise.
The expense is too great to keep a prisoner incarcerated approx $80,000 per annum, so it is cheaper to let the criminals out into the community.
The government has done the same with mentally ill patients, where previously they were cared for in institutions, whereas now they are unsupervised amongst the community.
Naturally the excuses are that it is for the benefit of the individual with the support of government agenda backed doctors.
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