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Is it possible to get away with murder?
What does a killer do after committing the most heinous
of crimes?
Do they carry on as normal and hide in plain sight
or go on the run?
He messaged at 3:05 in the morning and told me to come and get him.
How do the actions of a killer - after their crime -
influence the police investigation?
It was a very, very brutal attack. A slaying, really.
He is behaving very sure of what he was going to do.
By focusing on the aftermath,
we unpick the mindset of a killer,
understand the motive and reveal
what the killer did next.
31-year-old Daniel Seggie and his dad Geoff, 59,
moved to this quiet street of family homes following Geoff's divorce.
Mackworth is lovely. There's lots of wide, open, green spaces.
It's a tight-knit community.
There's families been living on this estate since it were built
it in early '50s and they're still here now.
Geoff and Dan soon settled into life on the street.
Daniel worked at a care home in Mickleover,
which is one of the nicer suburbs of Derby.
He was just a normal guy. He was a Derby County football fan.
He used to enjoy sports.
He wasn't one for going out and, you know, drinking or womanising
or anything like that. He was just an all-round normal guy.
Despite the split within the family,
Dan and his dad remained close to his mum and brother.
Geoff and his ex-wife were separated, but they were still good
friends. She'd sort out his bank account and his payments for him.
Geoff Seggie was 59.
He worked at AvailableCar in Castle Donington,
about 20 minutes outside Derby.
Daniel's brother also worked there.
They used to travel together in the morning and travel back at night.
Soon after moving in, Dan met mother-of-two, Zoe,
and the pair started seeing each other frequently.
So, I've known Dan over three years. I used to go to Dan's house a lot.
He would invite me round for dinner.
As the pair's relationship went from strength to strength,
they spent more time together as a family,
walking Zoe's dogs and playing with her children.
He's been involved in my life, my children's life.
He was always the caring one,
the one that did everything for everyone else.
But life for the young courting couple was about to change.
On Wednesday, 30 November, 2016,
Daniel Seggie was running household errands as normal,
dropping into the bank and picking up a takeaway dinner.
Daniel arranges to meet up with Zoe, his girlfriend, the next day,
to go shopping.
I was supposed to be having Dan come round in the morning to take me
into town to get a few winter bits for the children.
We were just going in for winter coats or something,
and he said he would come to mine for about ten in the morning.
He sent me a message saying he was on the way
and then, just didn't turn up.
So, I messaged him. I gave him a couple of hours.
I thought he was obviously busy or something's come up with work.
He'll get in touch with me when he needs to.
And then,
it went out to the whole day where nothing had happened.
I'd not heard anything back.
My messages hadn't delivered, so his phone was clearly switched off.
I tried ringing him numerous times,
just got nothing, and I was worried.
As hours passed, Zoe still couldn't get hold of Daniel.
She decided to go in search of him.
So, I went to his house.
But on arrival, Zoe was shocked at what she found.
There's all police wire and everything, outside his house.
So, I asked the police what had happened.
They said they couldn't tell me.
And then, they said there'd been a body found.
I literally went to my mum and dad's, crying,
and I was just in another world.
I just thought it was a dream.
The next morning,
news spreads around the neighbourhood that police had been called to
the scene of a murder.
It was a shock,
'cause it was something that never really happens in Mackworth estate,
to know that somebody had actually been murdered.
And, of course, my first concern was, was it a robbery gone wrong,
was it a fight?
Journalist Martin Naylor was on the story as it broke.
I was in the office on the morning that we started to receive
correspondence mainly through social media, that there was
a large police presence in Mackworth, in Derby.
There was a white tent outside the property, forensics teams
were there. As you'd expect,
the police in their white coats, going in and out the property.
And quite a reasonable section
of Marylebone Crescent was cordoned off.
With police releasing few details,
rumours are rife.
Who was the victim?
What exactly has gone on in this respectable neighbourhood?
He suffered around 60 stab wounds, mainly to the neck,
chest and head area, and he'd then been attacked with a hammer.
In Mackworth, Derbyshire,
police have arrived at the home of father and son, Geoff
and Daniel Seggie, after receiving a call from Daniel's concerned mum.
Geoff's ex-wife had been trying to contact
both Geoff and Daniel and were unable to contact either of them.
Geoff Seggie was a man of routine, you know. So, if he said he'd do
something at 7:00 each day, he tends to do it at 7:00.
If he did it at 8:00, he'd do it.
Part of Geoff's routine means he speaks to his
youngest son every morning.
So when he didn't hear from his dad for two days, he became concerned.
Police knocked down the door at Marylebone Crescent in Mackworth
on December 1, because they'd had contact from the Seggie family,
who were expressing their concern.
But as police enter the house, they are confronted by a bloodbath.
The victim was laid on the bed, having been attacked.
There had been no attempt to conceal
the body or dispose of the body.
The victim is 59-year-old Geoff Seggie.
And worryingly, son Daniel is nowhere to be seen.
The post-mortem on Geoff reveals a sustained and violent attack.
The post-mortem examination revealed that he'd suffered about
60 stab wounds mainly to the neck, chest and head area, and also that
he'd then been attacked with a hammer.
There were about 20 hammer injuries.
It was a very, very brutal attack. A slaying, really.
The nature of it did surprise me, yeah. How could somebody do that?
When you learn those sorts of things, it is shocking.
We started to piece things together ourselves, here. It was an attack.
It was a burglary gone wrong.
It was a bungled burglary where someone's just, you know,
attacked someone and killed someone.
Police launch a murder investigation.
They urgently need to find son Daniel to see if he can
help the search for the killer -
but Daniel Seggie is missing.
I thought someone's attacked Geoff and they've obviously took Dan,
abducted him or hurt him. And where is he?
Police need to find a killer.
They need to uncover a motive.
They need to find out what was going on in Geoff's life.
Who would want him dead?
Police speak with his ex-wife, Daniel's mum, who had reported
her concerns to them.
She reveals Daniel has been pretending to be his father in phone
calls and texts to her and his brother for the past two days.
He used his father's phone to send a text to his brother.
And he also called him as well and, clearly, the call wasn't from
Geoff Seggie. It was from Daniel. Something wasn't right.
He'd obviously not seen his dad for two days.
He used to see him every day. So, the police became involved.
Geoff is dead.
His son Daniel is missing.
And that's not all.
He's missing and, actually, his father's car's missing as well.
So, you know, it's a big clue for the investigators.
Police need to find Daniel Seggie - but not as a missing person -
as a suspect.
But with results of the post-mortem
leading police to believe Geoff Seggie
has been dead for three days, Daniel Seggie could be anywhere.
They turn to the one person they know Daniel is close to -
Zoe - the last person to hear from Daniel
before he went missing.
He sent me a message and said he'd been a brave soldier,
that he'd been to A&E, gone and got some stitches and an injection.
Told me about some painkillers he had.
Daniel told Zoe he had cut his finger and needed stitches.
Crucially, this appears to be on the same night police
believe Geoff Seggie was murdered.
He showed me the injury,
saying that he did it on a knife or Stanley blade at work.
Police now believe Daniel Seggie was behind the brutal attack
on his father and had cut his hand during the frenzied assault.
But where is he now?
They knew he was in a vehicle
and they knew the registration number of the vehicle.
So, to track Daniel down, there's the ANPR system which
tracks numbers plates and would be able to identify where cars are.
Around the country, there's many, many thousands of cameras that
would be able to track the vehicle.
Daniel Seggie has taken his father's black Honda Civic car
and he's driven that through Staffordshire and down to Cardiff.
Daniel's father's car is picked up by motorway cameras,
arriving in Cardiff.
It's then spotted by CCTV in the town centre.
Daniel parks up and walks away.
Then, the trail goes cold.
On December 1, Daniel, after leaving the car in a carpark in Cardiff,
he switched his mobile phone off, so that he was uncontactable.
Police now have a problem.
Daniel has dumped the car.
Number plate recognition technology
has helped the police as much as it can.
And now, Daniel has switched off his phone, so police cannot trace
the signal to pinpoint his location.
What is Daniel gonna do next and how dangerous is he?
By now, the police investigation was gathering huge amount of pace.
Obviously, there was a manhunt going on.
He could have had knives on him.
He could have had other weapons on him. They weren't sure about
that, at that point, so it was their priority to locate him.
When Dan Seggie goes on the run, as far as the police are concerned,
this is a man with great potential.
They need to find him, fast, because he could be armed,
he could be dangerous and he could strike again.
Four days after the murder and press interest is growing as the hunt for
Daniel Seggie intensifies.
Well, I recall being told by the Detective Chief Inspector
that, you know,
they needed to get Daniel Seggie and they needed to get him quick.
The reason being, they didn't know if he had any weapons on him.
So, the whole investigation, we know now, was relatively covert.
And I also understand that Zoe was helping the police at that time,
trying to find out his whereabouts.
The police first made contact by knocking on the door.
They came in and asked me questions.
How well I knew Dan? How long I've known him?
If I knew his whereabouts or where he could have gone.
I was literally getting dragged into the police station every day,
but I ended up just staying in the police station in one of their,
like, secret offices or whatever it was.
And that's when they told me to make the contact with Dan.
Well, through the police, Zoe was contacting Daniel through
social media and through his mobile phone, texting him, trying to find
out the location of where he was,
so that the police could go there and arrest him.
But for two days, Daniel Seggie remains elusive.
The last sighting police have is of Daniel walking away from
his dad's car in Cardiff.
It's difficult to understand.
Why did he go to Cardiff in the first instance?
What was there in Cardiff and why would you go there?
It's not an obvious choice from Derby.
Daniel Seggie's phone is still off.
Police trawl CCTV cameras in Cardiff city centre and suddenly spot him.
Daniel, after leaving the car in a carpark in Cardiff,
then went to Cardiff railway station.
What is really telling about the CCTV footage
is that he has nothing with him.
He has no possessions. Not even a coat, no toothbrush.
Nothing to suggest permanence.
So, is Dan Seggie planning to potentially end his own life?
That would be in keeping with the actions of his behaviour.
Daniel Seggie has been on the run for four days and the
last sighting of him was at Cardiff railway station buying a ticket.
But no-one knows where to and why.
Police are concerned about what he might do next.
Then, suddenly, a breakthrough.
Dan first made contact with me on 5 December at 7:15.
He sent me a message saying, "I'm sorry.
I honestly don't know what's happening.
My heart is broken, but also my mind.
I have no idea what has happened this past week.
It's like I've been asleep for a week, and woken up in a nightmare.
I'm so scared and confused.
I honestly don't know what to do.
All I want to do is hug you.
I love you and the boys forever.
Never forever that.
You are not just my girlfriend. You are my best friend and I love you."
Zoe tells police Dan has made contact.
Immediately, she's taken to the station.
Zoe is now a pawn in the manhunt for a killer.
The police that was running the case
was trying to get me to speak to him,
see if I could get him to communicate, find out where he was.
Then made contact with Dan, saying, "I'm really worried about you, Dan.
Please don't be scared. The boys and I want to see you."
And I asked him where you are.
I got something, I think, it was 24 hours later.
And said, "I really want to see you too, but I can't.
I'm so far away and I can't remember how I got here.
I have no money to get home. My wallet is gone and I'm all alone.
I wish I was with you. I'm so sorry. I'm somewhere north.
I wish I was OK, but I'm tired and alone and I feel so confused.
I don't want you to worry. I will be OK and I love you."
He then said, "I wish I could just come round and give you all hug.
I wish I could tell you that I'm OK, but I'm not.
I am safe, but I think I need to work out what to do."
I'm sorry.
With Daniel engaging with Zoe,
police seize the opportunity to discover his whereabouts.
The police then suggested that I made out that I was going to
fetch Dan, to try and get him to hand himself in.
So then, I told him, "I'll come and get you in my car."
He told me, "I'm too far away."
Within minutes, Daniel Seggie reveals to Zoe and waiting police,
the city where he is hiding out.
He was in Glasgow.
Derbyshire Police immediately contact Police Scotland.
With a violent killer on the loose,
they need to corner Daniel Seggie fast.
This killer has been on the run for five days, but now,
police are about to catch up with him.
In Glasgow, the net is closing in on a killer
wanted for a violent murder several hundred miles away in Derbyshire.
After five days on the run, Daniel Seggie has been traced
through a series of text messages to his girlfriend Zoe.
What had turned this gentle care worker into the brutal killer
of his own father?
Tuesday, November 29, 2016, should have been like any other day
in the Seggie household in a quiet suburb of Derby.
Geoff had finished work, said goodbye to his other son
with whom he had worked, and returned home.
What we now know is that when Geoff was preparing to go to bed,
he was attacked by his son Daniel towards the end of the evening,
10:00, 11:00, something along those lines.
It was a vicious and a savage killing. There were more than 60
stab wounds and then, he'd hit him more than 20 times with a hammer.
When Daniel was attacking his father,
it seems that his father was in quite a vulnerable position.
He didn't have any clothes on.
He was in his bedroom.
That made him incredibly vulnerable.
And that didn't seem to bother Daniel at all. Whatever
was driving him to kill his father was much, much stronger than that.
Following the murder, Daniel went and purchased a Chinese takeaway.
Then, he came and ate that back at the home,
which one may think is quite odd,
having just killed your father.
And then, one would almost expect the person to run away
and escape the area very quickly.
Daniel went to the Royal Derby Hospital where he was treated
at A&E for a cut to his hand, quite a deep cut. He'd gone to...
When he checked himself in at A&E,
he told the nurses there that he'd cut that making a sandwich.
Now, that was quite heavily strapped, heavily bandaged.
And then, he went home.
Dan Seggie also texts his girlfriend to tell her
that he's had an injury. He says he's been a brave, little soldier.
So he's creating this nice weaved alibi.
But again, it just demonstrates that he's connecting himself
with the crime. So he's obsessing about what he's done.
It's really difficult to understand what's going on in his mind
at the time. And partly, it may be that by continuing
to behave in a normal way, it almost takes him away from
what he's done and it gives him some time and it gives him some
time to think about what his next steps are going to be.
Every morning at 7am, Geoff Seggie would call or message his other son
before they'd meet at work.
But on Wednesday, 30 November, Daniel took on the role of his dad
and kept normality ticking along by sending his routine text message.
He sent him a text saying that, you know,
he wasn't gonna go into work that day and
he was quite suspicious about that, thinking, well,
that's not like his dad.
It was never gonna be convincing.
So what is Dan Seggie trying to do here?
Does he really believe that he can manipulate the world around him to
get the gain that he desires?
He wanted a period of time to adjust to the knowledge
that soon, he would not be free for a very long time.
Next, Daniel sent a text to his mother claiming to be Geoff.
Daniel sent a text message from his father's phone to Geoff's ex-wife,
asking her to transfer 100 pounds from his savings account
to his current account.
Later that day, Daniel Seggie goes about his business as usual,
visiting the cash machine on the high street where he withdraws
100 pounds from his father's account
and then to McDonald's, where he's caught on their CCTV cameras.
This is footage of a son
who has murdered his father in the most brutal attack.
When he goes to McDonald's to get some dinner,
you can't help but question what was going through his mind,
because the last thing you would imagine he would be
thinking about is his tummy after he's murdered somebody violently.
But doesn't that show, potentially, some real disassociation,
as in, he's done it, but he's not really contemplating the enormity
of his actions, so he just carries around his normal business?
He was just acting like it was everyday life.
Like, he was just carrying on. He was, like, smiling and smirking.
It was just out of character for him.
It's not something you'd ever expect.
Daniel Seggie then returns to the house he shares with his dad Geoff,
now laying dead in his bed.
I find it strange that he stayed in the house
with the body for two days,
'cause so much anger... so much anger in that killing,
and he stays there.
So, at some level, he's thinking,
"I've done the right thing. I'm justified in what I did."
He's not frightened of his own violence.
He's not frightened of what he's done.
He stayed there with the body.
He's comfortable being there with the body.
It's now that Daniel decides to flee the scene of crime.
He goes on the run in his father's car.
But first, he makes another stop at a bank.
And CCTV from the cashier's desk shows a smiling killer.
He then withdrew some cash - 300 pounds cash.
That demonstrates his lack of thinking it through.
Why would you not have cash in the first instance? So, he knew
he was going to kill him, but he didn't know what to do afterwards.
And, you know, it brings it back to why did he stay in
the house overnight? Well, he was perhaps thinking about what to do,
because he'd got no means of escape and if he'd got no cash,
then how was he going to escape?
When he goes to the bank, you can see that what he's really craving
is some kind of interaction.
You know, he stays as long as he can, talking to the actual cashier,
and he's talking about his injury.
Yes, that's partly to do with covering his tracks,
creating some kind of alibi.
But also, it's about that human interaction.
He's craving something. You almost feel a loneliness there.
Having withdrawn more cash,
Daniel Seggie leaves Derby in his father's car, heading for Cardiff.
By this stage, his brother, having not seen his dad Geoff for two days,
becomes suspicious and he calls the police.
When they got there, they found Geoff's body on his bed,
covered in a duvet.
OK, so, I was commissioned to chair an independent review
into the circumstances surrounding the homicide.
It's interesting that this particular case,
there hadn't been any agency involvement.
Nothing to indicate that
the outcome would've been as horrific as it is and certainly,
there was nothing to indicate that it was an abusive relationship.
The initial suspicions have got to be that Daniel's involved.
Daniel's not in the house.
Geoff's there, dead.
There's no contact with Daniel.
Why wouldn't Daniel report it?
So, Daniel has got to be a prime suspect straightaway.
With police in the house in Mackworth, Daniel Seggie is
150 miles away in Cardiff, having driven off in his father's car.
He heads to the train station.
He bought himself a ticket using cash to go to Glasgow and he took
a train to Glasgow from Cardiff.
6.5 hours later, Daniel Seggie arrives in Glasgow.
It seems to be, it was more of a random, "I'm just gonna go to
that location and then, I'll think about the next location
after that." There doesn't seem to have been a great deal of planning.
Looking at his journey after he left the house, he just seems to
be trying to put as much distance between him and his father's body
as humanly possible.
And he didn't seem to have an end destination in mind.
Daniel Seggie joins the ticket queue.
To everyone else around him, he is just another traveller.
They have no idea there's a killer in their midst.
On December 2, having arrived in Glasgow,
he bought a ticket to Thurso, in the far north of Scotland,
and he also checked in at a hotel for two nights.
With the next train to Thurso two days away,
Daniel Seggie lays low in hostel in Glasgow.
And it seems something's playing on his mind.
He made some internet searches around the police investigation.
I guess he was trying to understand what the police would be doing,
you know, how they would be actively going around pursuing him.
Quite interesting, because what it shows is a lack of organisation
or a lack of thinking through about what he's gonna do after
he's committed the murder.
You know, to start looking on the internet
to see how police investigation is,
you know, you would expect that to have been done beforehand.
And that's not all Daniel Seggie does.
It's at this point, he decides to reach out to the one person he feels
he can confide in - his girlfriend Zoe.
On December 5,
Daniel sent a text message down to his friend Zoe.
He sent me a message saying, "I'm sorry.
I honestly don't know what's happening.
My heart is broken, but also my mind."
But Daniel Seggie's actions actually lead police right
to his hiding place.
Dan Seggie is on the run for five days.
That's a long time to be knowledgeable
about the crime you've committed, to be running out of money,
to be missing home, missing the people you potentially loved.
He's lured in through is girlfriend.
I imagine that when he was talking to her, he had absolute
trust for her, because he had deep feelings and deep meaning with her.
So the fact that she was able to be used by the police to draw him in -
whilst that was really important and necessary - it would've been
incredibly difficult for Dan Seggie to process.
I think Dan was scared and panicked.
I think Dan knew he was gonna get found out.
He left a lot of evidence behind.
So it was just biding his time, really.
Daniel Seggie has evaded police for five days,
but time for this killer is running out.
Seven days after the murder of Geoff Seggie in Derbyshire
and five days after his body was found,
police are ready to pounce on the killer -
his eldest son Daniel Seggie -
after he unwittingly reveals where he is hiding.
He messaged at 3:05 in the morning and told me he's at the Jurys Inn.
That's when the police went and arrested him.
The police arrested Daniel Seggie in the reception of the hotel where
he'd been staying for two nights.
When Dan Seggie's arrested, you can clearly see he's waiting for it.
He's expecting it. He's recognised that it's just a waiting game.
It's almost as if when he's led away, he's just accepted it,
and there seems to be little shame, little concern, just a readiness.
Daniel had led police on a manhunt across three countries
from Derbyshire to Wales and finally to Scotland.
But it was his text to girlfriend Zoe revealing his location which
sealed his fate.
I was at the police station in Derby,
so I knew he'd obviously been arrested.
He wouldn't have been expecting it.
He'd honestly have thought it was me then, and he'd probably
have gave me some rough idea of what had happened,
then he'd probably plan his next move.
I don't think he would've tried to come back to Derby with me,
but I think it was more he wanted to see me for comfort sort of thing.
With Daniel in custody, police hope he will crack
under questioning and reveal a motive behind the horrific crime.
What would drive a loving son to kill his father?
During his police interview, he obviously doesn't make any comment,
which is his right.
But obviously, I thought Dan was innocent.
I thought it was all a mistake and I didn't know what was going off,
so I just presumed they would question Dan and then,
he'd be walking out and it'd all be a dream, something else.
He'd give an explanation why this has happened.
My understanding is that it was a no-comment interview all the way
through. I don't think he gave away any information.
Police had found the murder weapons under Daniel's bed,
the packaging of the knife hidden between the wall and his bed,
his fingerprints all over it.
The evidence against Daniel Seggie was overwhelming.
Yet still, he refused to speak to police.
Daniel Seggie has picked up quite a fearsome knife
and chosen to attack his father in such a vicious way.
And then, once that's happened,
he's then picked up a hammer and done that as well.
Now, whether the hammer was to hand, whether he
took the weapons into the bedroom, whether there was that, you know,
couple of minutes of pre-planning where he said in his head,
"I'm gonna do this," only Daniel Seggie will know.
You know, something's happened and it's created the situation
and then it's kind of a panic and something that's taken over
and he's panicked and lost control and, you know,
all that kind of thing.
It's not the behaviour you would associate with
an average kid that goes to school,
has a...you know, fun-loving guy
who thinks about his family and thinks family is everything.
It's not the kind of behaviour you'd expect with that. So, well,
something's obviously tipped him over the edge, whatever that is.
When there is such anger, when somebody feels that they need to
lash out in this way, in, you know, in a single event, it's because,
probably, that in the past, when this person has upset them,
they have had no control.
And usually, that's things that may have happened in childhood,
abusive behaviours, all sorts of abuses,
that perhaps parents are in a position to mete out.
Daniel Seggie is charged with murdering his father.
As yet, the police have no motive.
Once again, they turn to Daniel's girlfriend, Zoe.
Could she be the key to discovering what lay behind this brutal crime?
One month after his arrest and he agrees to a visit from Zoe
at the prison where he is on remand.
It was scary, obviously. I've never been to somewhere like that before.
It's not something I was ever wanting to go.
It's just odd environment.
And then, just seeing him there, he just looked so vulnerable and
so out of place. It just, it wasn't for him, the sort of person I knew.
He, like, looked all quiet and scared, but he said he
was getting on with everyone, he was keeping his head down.
Telling me still, he's innocent, 'cause I asked him to try and
tell me what had happened, but he just turned off the subject.
He wasn't interested.
With Daniel revealing nothing further as to why he had
committed this most horrific crime, it's left for him to face his fate.
Almost six months after the murder of Geoff Seggie,
his son Daniel appears at court for his trial.
But it appears, once again,
he doesn't want to have to account for his actions on that day.
He pleaded guilty
at the first opportunity at Nottingham Crown Court.
Ultimately, he could've said anything, because his father,
Geoff, was dead.
Geoff couldn't say, "No, that didn't happen."
A lot of it was down to Daniel.
So, he could've said all sorts of things,
but he chose not to.
I think he pleaded guilty because he felt justified,
at some level, for doing what he had done.
The controversial part is that he won't say what that motivation is.
But there is one. There's always a motivation with all murders.
And him refusing to say what it is, means it's very personal.
When Daniel Seggie appeared at court for sentencing,
the judge revealed the extent of the injuries to his father.
Geoff Seggie's carotid artery had been severed,
leading to immediate death.
Daniel Seggie didn't show very much emotion at all.
There was just a neutral reaction from him.
I do remember he had a hearing loop on and he's listening
to the proceedings going on.
When I saw Dan in court, he was a completely different person.
This is when I started thinking, "Maybe there is more to this than
what he was letting on and the Dan I knew,"
because there was just no remorse.
He was just in the box, come straight in. He didn't
even acknowledge his family or myself, my sister, all his friends.
He just turned away. He was just looking straight to the judge,
like he had other things to do and he wanted it to all be over with.
The judge sentenced him to life with a minimum tariff of 20 years.
Well, the judge told that he'd carried out a brutal, merciless
and sustained attack on a naked man in his own bedroom, and that
his father must have suffered considerable pain and anguish.
He said, "Send him down."
Daniel just took his hearing loop off, stood up and walked off.
There was very little, you know, eye contact with his family
or with anyone in the public gallery or the press bench.
Not even with his own barrister.
He just took the hearing loop off and walked off.
Justice has been served.
But for the family and friends,
there are questions which may never be answered.
In a victim statement read out in court, Daniel's mother said,
"She still loved her son, but hated what he'd done
and was left asking, "Why?""
I think something snapped in Daniel Seggie and he attacked his father.
I don't know what it is that snapped, but something did.
When you look at this case, it's hard to imagine that
there weren't any driving forces or triggers behind
Dan Seggie's murdering his father.
But the truth is, people do have the potential to snap,
even for some of the most simplest scenarios.
So there is also a possibility that Dan Seggie was just another killer.
Perhaps no-one will ever know
what drove Daniel Seggie to murder his father.
After all,
there's only two people who know what took place that day and why.
One of them is in prison and one of them is dead.
It's still a massive shock, even, like, a year down the line,
because, you know, people ask me about him
and I'm still there defending the guy.
Like, Dan, I'll still always stick up for.
He was always the guy that never did anything wrong to me.
He always supported me. He always had my back and the kids.
It still seems unbelievable, but obviously, the evidence is there.
He's been sentenced and he's gotta do his time.
But I try and forget about that and just try and think about
the good Dan and the good times we had and try and blank that bit out.
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