AUSTRALIA’s longest indigenous prisoner has finally tasted freedom after spending forty years behind bars.
Derek Bromley has been released on parole after serving four decades in jail and maintained he did not commit the crime.
Bromley was initially given a life sentence for the murder of Stephen Docoza, whose body was found dumped in a river in 1984.
Now aged 68, the Adelaide resident was reported to be the longest-serving Indigenous prisoner in Australia.
Bromley has made repeated attempts to overturn his conviction but failed.
But the turn of events changed after the state’s parole board granted him parole due to his “exemplary” behavior in prison.
The court also heard the victim might have died of natural causes.
