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Daniel Brian Fleming, from his mother Sylvia

Daniel Brian Fleming was murdered on New Years Day 1992 twelve days before his 31st birthday, he had been married just 9 months.

This was my son, he was murdered for nothing.. Darren Crowley murdered my beautiful son on New Years Day 1992, and now he is free to kill again. Danny and his wife were planing a family that year. He had just moved into his new home, life was good, untill this mongrel plunged a knife into my son's back and my son turned to face him. Crowley then plunged the knife into his heart, and pulled it out. What kind of a mind can do this, he did not even know my son.

Danny was murdered for food and beer that Crowley stole from Dannys ute. We had made him welcome at a family party. we did not know him at all. Crowleye did all this in the dark. He was stealing what he could from caravans, cars and the ute when Danny caught him in the act.

Now he is walking free now , yes free, and he also escaped from prison in Auckland costing New Zealand taxpayers many thousands of dollars - your money, and mine and my other children. He is free to breath after only 14 years.

Please, an eye for an eye, take a life, give your own up. Additionally, I see his friend Graeme Burton was freed to murder all over again, and mark my word, Darren Crowley will murder again

I moved out of New Zealand as I cannot be in the same country as a bastard like him . Each day is hard, we live each day as a victim, yet Crowley gets free meals and accommodation, along with access to a gym, TV, etc, and he still has HIS RIGHTS! He should have no rights.....

My daughter-in-law saw Darren in a pub in Lower Hutt, she was sick to her stomach, he is free while all the Fleming and Booth families watch him walk the streets a free man, knowing their brother will never do this again.. I now live in Australia as I can't stand the thought of Crowley being free. I hate New Zealand for not keeping him in for life.

I miss my first born, he would have been 46 last January. I still cry. You can never understand this, not until it happens to YOU!

How many more how many more will be murdered? How many have been since 1992 ??

Dannys Mother Sylvia

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