Louisa Bina Damodran

Peter Joseph Holdem was jailed for life in 1987 for murdering 6-year-old Louisa Damodran near Christchurch. On October 15, 1986, little Louisa - who was just days shy of her 7th birthday - was walking home from school and just 100m from home when Holdem kidnapped her. He drove her to the Waimakariri River north of the city, throttled her and drowned her. Her body was found downstream three weeks later. At the time of the murder Holdem was on parole after serving time for the 1982 attempted rape of a 10-year-old in a Christchurch park. He has a history of sex attacks on children dating back to the 1970s. Today the Parole Board revealed Holdem had "five pages of sexual offending dishonesty and violent offending before he was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder". Holdem was first eligible for parole in October 1996 and has been refused every time he has appeared before the board. Source:https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/notorious-christchurch-child-killer-p...

Aynsley Harwood wakes up screaming. Her nightmares are vivid, relentless and painful. The daughter she lost 26 years ago is ripped away from her night after night by a monster named Peter Holdem. The nightmares get worse around May when the monster usually appears in person. Holdem murdered Harwood's 6-year-old daughter, Louisa Damodran, in 1986. He became eligible for release about 10 years later. Like many crime victims and family members, Harwood has been fighting to keep him in prison since that day. Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/life-long-sentence-for-victims-famili...

Holdem was a prolific petty criminal, and child sex offender, before he murdered Louisa, who was days from her seventh birthday. She would now have been be 40. He had a history of stalking children before convincing them to go with him, at times on his bike. He would say their mothers had said he was able to take them to see his pet rabbits. In Louisa’s case, she was walking home from school in Bromley when she was either snatched by Holdem or coerced into his car. She was just 100m from her house. He drove her to the Waimakariri River, throttled her and then threw her into the river where she drowned. Her body was found downstream three weeks later. At the time of the murder Holdem was on parole for the 1982 attempted rape of a 10-year-old. He has a history of sex attacks on children dating back to the 1970s. In 2012, the Louisa Damodran case featured in high profile psychologist Nigel Latta’s TV series Beyond the Darklands. Latta concluded Holdem should never be released from prison. Source: https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-christchurch/child-killer-stil...