Final Years
He worked as a rehabilition officer during his final years of freedom until his health declined. In 1980, Darcy married Jan Simmons, who he had met in prison while she was researching a book about her brother, Kevin Simmons. Although they seperated not long after, they remained friends and Jan looked after Darcy when his health began to fail upon his final release from prison. Darcy Dugan died in Glebe, New South Wales from Parkinson's disease on 22 August 1991. He was buried at Rookwood Catholic Cemetery on 29 August 1991.
Dugan was sentenced to death, along with a co-offender, in 1950. An appeal against sentence failed but Cabinet later commuted the sentences to life imprisonement.
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