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About Julian Knight (murderer)
- Julian Knight (born 4 March 1968) is an Australian mass murderer.
- On 9 August 1987, he shot dead seven people and injured 19 during a shooting spree in Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia, in what became known in Australian history as the Hoddle Street massacre. Knight is currently serving seven concurrent sentences of life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 27 years.
- The judge who sentenced him, Justice George Hampel, stated that there were 'a number of significant mitigatory factors' and 'the fixing of a minimum term in this case is appropriate because of your age and your prospects of rehabilitation.' The Crown prosecutor, Joe Dickson QC, 'did not contend that a minimum term should not be fixed.'Knight currently resides in the maximum security Port Phillip Prison in Truganina, Victoria near Melbourne and was eligible for parole in 2014, until the Victorian government passed and subsequently approved of legislation which ensures that Julian Knight, who is the state of Victoria's worst mass murderer, to be kept in jail until he dies, is in immediate danger of dying or is so incapacitated that he no longer poses a danger to others.
- He has appealed against such legislation numerous times, but lost his final appeal to the High Court in August 2017.
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