Axe attacker Evie Amati bares her chilling tattoos as she walks out of jail laughing – just eight years after hacking at the heads of random strangers in 7-Eleven horror

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Ax attacker Evie Amati smiled in the sunshine as she was released from prison, eight years to the day after her gruesome attempted murder of customers at a 7-Eleven store in Sydney.

Amati, a trans woman, smashed a huge ax into a man’s head at an Enmore gas station on January 6, 2017, before attacking a female customer and another man.

But at 9.30am on Monday, Amati, 32, walked out of the Bolwara Transitional Center at Emu Plains Women’s Prison smiling, with a new look and a creepy prison tattoo.

She came into the daylight, looking excited and grinning widely, and had so many boxes and bags that she needed a large cart to transport them from the prison.

Amati, wearing jeans, Vans skater shoes and a sleeveless maroon top, was quickly escorted from custody to a waiting friend’s car before being taken away.

With shiny pink painted nails, full make-up 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 revealed other disturbing arm tattoos, 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 jumping into the car with a black Calvin Klein suitcase, documents and her multiple bags.

While a friend was driving, Amati left prison and drove down the M4 motorway.

Her parole conditions ban her from entering Sydney’s CBD. the suburbs of Annandale, Petersham, Newtown and Sydenham, and from using illegal drugs or drinking alcohol.

Amati appeared to have a fuller figure than the woman caught on CCTV casually walking into the Enmore petrol station at 2.20am on January 6, 2017 carrying a 2kg ax and an 18cm knife her back pocket.

Not only did the terrifying brutality of what Amati did to innocent suburban 7-Eleven customers shock the nation, but so did her relatively short sentence.

Even with a stiffer sentence after public outcry and an appeal by prosecutors, Amati will be free of any parole supervision within six years and can 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 anger.

After undergoing menopause surgery in Thailand in 2016, Amati experienced post-operative pain and had broken up with her girlfriend. The band in which she was a drummer had also disbanded.

Through her union official parents, she had scored a job in Sydney at 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, she sent a friend a Facebook message saying:Most people deserve to die, I hate people” and went home to get the ax she had bought two months earlier.

After walking 500 yards from her home, she entered Enmore 7-Eleven, walked around the store, and approached Ben Rimmer as he waited at the cash 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 swung the ax at Mr. Rimmer’s face. He was not immediately aware of what had happened, other than that it was “like a blow from the king.”

“It didn’t register right away, it took about 30 seconds,” he said. ‘I fell to the ground. I was lying on my stomach and bleeding profusely.’

Rimmer panicked that he might bleed, the blood was pouring from his face so fast and flowingly. Rimmer took off his shirt and said, “I tied it around my head to try to keep it down.”

He did not know at the time that Amati had also hit the customer in front of him, who had just bought a carton of milk, with her axe.

Amati swung at Sharon Hacker’s head and as she lay helpless on the ground, Amati delivered a second vicious blow that would certainly have killed her, but narrowly missed.

Amati then stepped over Ms Hacker and crossed the petrol station bays to the road where she waved to a third victim, Shane Redwood.

Inside the 7-Eleven, Rimmer, bleeding on the floor and screaming in panic as the pain hit, yelled at the owner to lock the store’s doors for fear that Amati would return to finish them off.

He started vomiting due to his injuries.

Amati was convicted in the NSW District Court in 2018 of wounding with intent to murder, causing grievous bodily harm with intent to murder and attempted wounding with intent to murder.

The jury found her guilty, but there was general outrage at the short sentence Amati received – four and a half years – before it was successfully appealed.

The maximum penalty for each crime is 25 years in prison, but even after an appeal, Amati’s maximum sentence is still only 14 years.

The minimum sentence, eight years, expired on Monday and NSW Community Corrections recommended parole on the grounds that Amati “has completed their program pathway in custody.

‘[She has] participated in educational and vocational programs and engaged in professional interventions to address mental health issues, substance abuse and offending behaviour,” the NSW State Parole Authority said.

‘Amati is assessed as having a medium/low risk of reoffending.’

Amati’s victims carry lifelong physical injuries and mental trauma.

Sharon Hacker developed arm pain and chest pain, lost 50 pounds, suffers from persistent nerve pain and her daughter became agoraphobic and was terrified of going out in the dark.

Ben Rimmer will spend the rest of his life with four titanium plates in his face, including an orbital plate that moves and that he can feel every time he touches it.

The CCA’s appeal noted that if the cut had been “a millimeter or two higher, it would have resulted in potentially life-threatening… massive bleeding in the brain, loss of vision” for Rimmer.

As cheerfully smiling new parolee Evie Amati showed off her new look outside prison walls on Monday before driving off to her new life, her female handler questioned the Mail’s right to photograph the perpetrator’s exit to freedom.

Ben Rimmer has previously told the Mail that Amati would ‘easily waste her time and be released on parole. It played out perfectly for her, perhaps better than she expected.

“She went there to kill. It’s pure luck that I’m still alive, and she has no regrets. She is intelligent… calculating.”

The Mail understands that Amati, who has been in three different women’s prisons since her arrest two years ago, has used her intelligence and skills as a former trade union organizer to push other female prisoners into the system.

Born Karl Amati, she claimed in an affidavit opposing her sentence increase in 2019 that she was “de-transitioning” to return to male.

By all reports, that did not happen.