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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:01p.m.

Murderer Luke Frederick Sibley will stay in prison for at least another year (file)

Murderer Luke Frederick Sibley will stay in prison for at least another year (file)

A murderer who strangled a Christchurch toddler to death has been denied parole.

Luke Frederick Sibley, 33, was convicted of murdering Brittany Crothall, 3, in 1997.

He will stay in prison for at least one more year to undergo an intensive child sex offenders course.

Sibley was 18 when he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 13 years, after confessing to suffocating the toddler and attempting to kill her mother.

A Parole Board decision released this month found Sibley was at risk of sexually offending.

Parole Board Judge David Carruthers said this was because there was strong evidence to suggest Sibley murdered the girl to cover up a sexual assault.

However Sibley was never charged with sexual offenses.

He is on the waiting list for the Child Sex Offenders Programme which takes place in July 2013. 

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22 Feb 2012 08:56a.m.

pondering wrote:

Sadly @ MizDD: Freaks like that actually enjoy what they do as sport and believe they have a right to do it. They have kids deliberately and or latch onto others with kids in order to perpetrate their crimes. The best victims are those whom are totally dependent on the offender. They don't see anything wrong with their behaviours and actions , though do often realise it is not socially accepted and will go to great lengths to hide their crimes to avoid consequences to themselves. Hence you have judges giving celebrities and prominent sportsmen name suppression and limited sentencing or discharge with out conviction. Covering each others backs.

22 Feb 2012 01:40a.m.

miszdoubledeeze wrote:

I never understand why people have Kid's and then fist place and then commit such an evil act like this