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One of Australia’s longest-serving prisoners will walk free from jail after spending four decades behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit. The Parole Board of South Australia has granted Derek Bromley release on parole after he spent 40 years in prison for the murder of Adelaide man Stephen Docoza. Bromley, and his co-accused John Karpany, were sentenced to life imprisonment after Docoza’s body was found floating in the River Torrens in 1984.
“He was involved in a number of riots, he had convictions for assault in prison,” she said on Thursday. “But in later years he has changed significantly. He is the first to acknowledge that he’s a different man, and he is. “His behaviour in the last few years has been exemplary.
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