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The woman whose mother's murderer was paroled to live next door to her has received support from an unexpected quarter - his daughter.
The murderer's daughter contacted the Weekend Herald after it was revealed how the killer was moved in next door to the unknowing woman in Hamilton in the latest blunder by the Parole Board and Corrections.
She was also scared of what her father could do, saying the blunder meant "he could have just as easily ended up next to me".
The murderer's daughter gave her support to the woman, now 21, who was present when the murderer stabbed her mother in Gisborne in 1992.
They had known each other as children from the time before the murder, when their two parents had been in a relationship, but had not spoken since.
Both have asked not to be identified because of fears for their safety, and do not want the killer identified in case it provokes him to go looking for them.
The murderer's daughter said she had a protection order out against her father and was surprised to see the Parole Board did not know about it to factor it in to his release conditions - just as it did not know about the victim's daughter in Hamilton.
She knew he had been released this year, but the location was kept secret to protect his privacy.
She presumed that he would not have been paroled near her, and said the victim's daughter had even more right to believe that.
She and her mother had taken out the protection orders when her father first started going up for parole.
He had been violent towards them, and while she was not scared for herself, she was concerned for the safety of her mother and other family.
They would now be seeing police to make sure he was kept away from their area.
The Parole Board and Corrections have said they did not know about the Hamilton woman because she was not on the victims notification register, managed by police.
The woman had presumed she would be on their records and that the murderer would not be moved within 50km of her. She is now demanding he be moved from Hamilton.
The murderer's daughter said the blunder was caused by the same failing that meant her protection order was not picked up in the Parole Board's conditions.
"They should have been looking into every member of their [victim's] family and anybody else affected. How hard is it to make inquiries? It is bullshit - someone is not doing their job properly."
She wanted to make contact again with the Hamilton woman and her three adult siblings, who were made orphans by her father's crime.
"We always got on really well. I've never spoken to them or Dad since.
"I am a victim of all this too. It is not every day that someone walks around with [their father's actions on their] conscience."
