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Callum Godde

Victim's family elated after parole reform backflip

The parents of murder victim Natalie Russell welcomed news her killer will stay behind bars. (Luis Ascui/AAP PHOTOS)

The family of the third and final victim of serial killer Paul Denyer have praised the Victorian government's about-face on naming him in sweeping parole law reforms.

Denyer pleaded guilty to stabbing and strangling Elizabeth Stevens, 18, Debbie Fream, 22, and Natalie Russell, 17, over a seven-week period in the Melbourne bayside suburb of Frankston in 1993.

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