Daughter asks to confront Weymouth dad's killer after 10 years (From Thisisdorset)

Daughter asks to confront Weymouth dad's killer after 10 years

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THE daughter of a man murdered in Weymouth wants to confront her dad’s killer.

Michelle Siala says that 10 years after the crime she wants to ask her the murderer: ‘Why did you kill my dad?’ Michelle was pregnant with her father Frank’s first grandchild when he was stabbed and killed by Edward Kromer in a Great George Street flat in the summer of 2000.

She had not seen her father for 10 years when he was killed and was too upset to try to find anything out about him at that time.

But Miss Siala has now decided she wants to find out more.

She said: “I want the chance to hear why he killed my dad and even if he can’t tell us that then I need to know what my father was like in those last few years. Did he talk about us?”

Mr Siala was attacked by Kromer with a kitchen knife in the early evening of July 18, 2000.

He died of organ failure in Dorset County Hospital on July 22.

Miss Siala added: “The last that I heard Kromer had tried for parole and it had been rejected.

“I would like to know if he feels any remorse.”

Miss Siala, who lives in Scotland, would also like to hear from people who knew her father.

Mr Siala was known by several different names including Faysal Siala, Frank Siala and ‘Frankie the Arab’.

He is believed to have emigrated to Edinburgh from Tunisia in 1975 before moving to Weymouth in 1995 and settling in Queen Street.

Miss Siala decided she wanted to find out about her father after coming across a Dorset Echo story online. She said: “I was informed by police that he had died at the time. I was unable to take in much information. I’ve now stumbled across the Echo website.

“For once I was actually able to read the information and take it in as opposed to someone telling me it years ago.

“I was so upset then that I didn’t understand.” Kromer was sentenced to life imprisonment at Winchester Crown Court in January 2001.

The Ministry of Justice and the Parole Board would not confirm his current whereabouts.

His defence barrister Peter Kyte was unavailable for comment.

People Mr Siala might have known include Peter Richards, known as Morecambe Pete, Barbara Anne Critchell, Anne McDade, Stephen Hall and Jeremy Todd.

l If you can provide any information about Frank Siala for Miss Siala you can contact reporter Arron Hendy on 01305 830981 or email arron.hendy@dorsetecho. co.uk