Convicted killer Alicia Schiller backs out of plan to undergo IVF treatment while serving 16-year sentence

A Victorian woman serving 16 years for the stabbing murder of a young mother will no longer go ahead with IVF treatment plans after receiving intense backlash over the decision.

Last week convicted killer Alicia Schiller was granted permission to leave prison to receive IVF treatment, infuriating the family of her victim, Tyrelle Evertsen-Mostert.

The 25-year-old was stabbed to death by Schiller in the Norlane, Geelong home they shared in 2014.

Schiller killed the mother-of-three during a drug-fuelled rage after she took $50 from her bedroom.

Evertsen’s partner and four-year-old son were at the home at the time.

The news outraged Evertsen-Mostert’s relatives, who last week told 7NEWS the act was selfish because, if the treatment was successful, the child would have been raised inside a special unit at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre.

“She took away a life, does she have the right to a better life?” Yvonne Gentle, the mother of Evertsen-Mostert’s partner, said.

“I think it’s a selfish act to bring a child up in prison.”

Now the Herald Sun has reported that Schiller, who is in her 30s, no longer plans to go ahead with her IVF plans.

“She has withdrawn her application,” a source told the publication.

On the weekend it was also reported that Melbourne IVF, Monash IVF and Victoria’s public fertility service would have refused to provide the treatment.

Schiller was initially granted permission following a landmark 2010 ruling in which the Supreme Court allowed an inmate to resume IVF treatment she had already begun before her incarceration.

It was found the IVF treatment was reasonable and “necessary for the preservation of health” under section 47(1)(f) of the Corrections Act.