The Government is under mounting pressure to explain how a former immigration detainee accused of a brutal home invasion was out in the community in the first place. 73-year-old Perth grandmother Ninette Simons and her husband Philip were at home earlier this month when a trio allegedly posing as police officers entered their house and are accused of assaulting her.

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