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Michael Guider at an Aboriginal site in Sydney
Michael Guider is an Australian pedophile who has been imprisoned on charges of pedophilia and manslaughter.
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Early life
Michael Guider was born on 20 October 1950, in the city of Melbourne, Victoria. He and his mother moved to Sydney in 1952. His mother had an unstable relationship with an army cook who was an alcoholic. A brother, Tim, was born in 1953.[1] The two boys spent time in institutions because their mother was unstable and unable to look after them.[1] In the 1970s, Guider was charged with various offences after setting fire to a shop owned by a woman he had had a relationship with.[1]
Guider had worked as a gardener[2] at the Royal North Shore Hospital, and over the years and also had developed a keen interest in Aboriginal culture and sites around Sydney. He had even earned some respect as an amateur expert on the subject[2][3] and his material had been used and acknowledged in at least one published book.[4]
Imprisonment
By late 1995, Guider had been arrested on charges of child molesting.[1] In September, 1996, he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment on sixty charges of offences against children.[5] His usual modus operandi had been to babysit the children of women he knew and knock them out with the sleeping drug Normasin. He would then molest and photograph them while they were asleep.[1]
Samantha KnightSamantha Knight
Guider eventually attracted the attention of police who were investigating the disappearance of a nine year-old girl named Samantha Knight. The latter had disappeared from her home in the Sydney suburb of Bondi on 19th August, 1986.[6] She had never been found, but police had reasons to turn their attention to the convicted pedophile Michael Guider. After a lengthy investigation, he was arrested and charged with Samantha's murder on 22 February, 2001.[7] On 7 June 2001, he pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Samantha Knight. He claimed that he had drugged her the way he had always drugged his victims, but that he had accidentally given her an overdose that killed her. On 28 August, 2002, he was sentenced to 12–17 years for manslaughter. Samantha's body has never been found; Guider said he could not remember what he did with the body. He showed no remorse.[8][9]
Guider was placed in conditions of strict protection in Goulburn prison.[10]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e Sydney Morning Herald, 4th August 1999, page 12
- ^ a b Sydney Morning Herald, 4th August 1999, page 1
- ^ The Glebe, 13th July 1994, page 3
- ^ Walks in Sydney Harbour National Park, Neil Paton, Kangaroo Press, 1987, page 2
- ^ Daily Telegraph, 1st October 1996, page 3
- ^ Daily Telegraph, 29th September 1996, page 1
- ^ Daily Telegraph, 23rd February 2001, page 4
- ^ Daily Telegraph, 29th August 2002, page 3
- ^ Sydney Morning Herald, 29th August 2002, page 2
- ^ Sydney Morning Herald, 2nd November 2009, p.3
Bibliography
- The Glebe, 13 July 1994
- Daily Telegraph, 29 September 1996
- Daily Telegraph, 1 October 1996
- Sydney Morning Herald, 4 August 1999
- Daily Telegraph, 22 February 2001
- Daily Telegraph, 23rd FEbruary 2001
- Sydney Morning Herald, 23 February 2001
- Daily Telegraph, 25 February 2001
- Daily Telegraph, 9 April 2002
- Daily Telegraph, 10 April 2002
- Daily Telegraph, 19 April 2002
- Daily Telegraph, 27 April 2002
- Sydney Morning Herald, 8 June 2002
- Daily Telegraph, 29 August 2002
- Sydney Morning Herald, 29 August 2002
- The Sun-Herald, 26 November 2006
External links
Categories:- 1950 births
- Living people
- Criminals from Melbourne
- Australian people convicted of manslaughter
- Prisoners and detainees of New South Wales
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