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He will never change, and they must keep him inside.

Despite his initial parole application being rejected, Dania remained eligible to apply again and again.

Each time, the victim's families would be forced to prepare submissions, relive the trauma, and face the possibility that he could one day be released.

In direct response, the Victorian Government passed new laws in late 2023, allowing the Parole Board to impose a no-return date for certain life sentence prisoners, including Danielle.

The laws were developed in consultation with the family of Natalie Russell, Denya's final victim, and were dubbed Nat's Law.

It's like having a tremendous weight lifted off us, Brian Russell told the ABC.

We're tickled pink knowing that Denya will never be allowed to apply for parole again and there's no hope of him ever getting out of jail.

It's something we've been working towards for the last 30 years."

When this started, Denya was knocked back on parole, but six months down the track he could have applied again and we'd have to go through it all once more.

Now, that will never happen, and it won't happen in other cases either.

The loss of Natalie is something we live with every day.

We don't need the added pressure of knowing her murderer could be free at any time.

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45-year-old FBI negotiator Byron Sage was mortified.

A Vietnam War veteran who had been employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for almost 25 years, he had a wealth of experience when it came to negotiating hostage situations.

He'd worked in fugitive, extortion and organised crime investigations and knew how to navigate a crisis.

Sage had spent hours trying to coax David Koresh and his followers from their compound, and had helped put together a surrender plan that looked set to end the disastrous siege that had started under the ATF less than three days earlier.

By the afternoon of Tuesday March 2 1993, both the Branch Davidians and the FBI negotiators were anticipating a peaceful and imminent resolution, with David Koresh promising that everyone inside the compound would surrender in exchange for his message being broadcast on a national television station.