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Gil Elliott fears his daughter's murderer may kill again if given a chance at freedom.
Clayton Weatherston was a 32-year-old economics tutor at Otago University, who had taught and had been in a relationship with honours student Sophie Elliott.
The 22-year-old had left Weatherston and on 9 January 2008 was packing up her life to move to Wellington to take up a job at Treasury.
Weatherston arrived at her family's home in the Dunedin suburb of Ravensbourne armed with a knife.
He stabbed her to death so viciously the knife broke and Weatherston also used a pair of scissors in the frenzy.
At trial he tried to blame the attack on Sophie, claiming the partial defence of provocat
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