Revealed: Convicted murderers are being housed in government-funded nursing home NEXT DOOR to building set aside for homicide victims' families
- Killers Michael Goodridge and Do Hyun Chong cared for at Garrawarra Centre
- The government-funded nursing home shares the grounds with Ebony House
- Ebony House is designed for families of homicide victims to cope with their loss
- NSW Health Department said no risk was posed moving murderers into centre
Two convicted murderers are living in a government-funded nursing home metres away from a complex for families of homicide victims.
Killers Michael Goodridge and Do Hyun Chong are being cared for inside the Garrawarra Centre in Helensburgh, in New South Wales.
Only metres away stands Ebony House - a cottage where families of homicide victims can temporarily live as they cope with the sudden loss of a loved one.
Shocked families have spoken to 7 News to air their disgust that the sanctuary sits next door to a facility that is housing murderers.
Killers Michael Goodridge and Do Hyun Chong are being cared for inside the Garrawarra Centre in Helensburgh, in New South Wales
Shocked families have spoken to 7 News to air their disgust that the sanctuary sits next door to a facility that is housing murderers
'It's an ongoing nightmare,' one man said. 'It's a nightmare that will never end.'
Goodridge was sentenced to 18 years in jail after murdering his carer Carmel George in 2009.
Ms George had been caring for Goodridge after he suffered a car accident, before she was brutally killed in an abandoned rail barracks next to Mossvale railway station.
The court heard Goodridge had lashed out after his sexual advances were rejected.
He went on to bash Ms George against a wall and dealt injuries to her vagina and rectum.
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Goodridge suffered from brain damage brought on from years of alcohol and drug abuse and argued he had no memory of the crime because of dementia.
Chong was given a jail sentence of up to 15 years after murdering his supervisor and housemate Jong Hwa Park inside a Sydney scrap metal factory in 2009.
Chong used a metal stake to attack Park and in his final moments stood on his victim's lower back and beat him to death.
Two months later Chong was involved in a catastrophic car accident that left him with permanent intellectual disabilities and no recollection of his crime.
Only metres away stands Ebony House - a cottage where families of homicide victims can temporarily live as they cope with the sudden loss of a loved one
Despite the horrific natures of their crimes, both Chong and Goodridge are now living in the nursing home alongside dementia patients.
The NSW Health Department said in a statement the men had been there for some time and no serious incident had been reported.
'The Garrawarra Centre accepted two men from Long Bay Hospital who have advanced dementia.
'People with dementia will struggle with gradual, irreversible loss of memory, judgment, functional abilities such as eating and bathing and communication, health. The disease will eventually claim their life.
The men have been at the Garrawarra Centre for some time without any serious incident.
'The Forensic, Mental Health, NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) assessed the patients and concluded the patients were low risk, particularly in light of their advanced condition.'
