Michael Guider

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Michael Guider is an Australian pedophile who has been imprisoned on charges of pedophilia and manslaughter.

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[edit] Early Life

Michael Guider was born on 20 October 1950, in Melbourne. 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] 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[3][2] and his material had been used and acknowledged in at least one published book.[4]

[edit] 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]

[edit] Samantha 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 22nd February, 2001.[7] On 7th June 2001, he pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Samantha Knight. He claimed that he had drugged her the way he always drugged his victims, but that he had accidentally given her an overdose that killed her. On 28th 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]

[edit] Gallery

Michael Guider at an Aboriginal site in Sydney

Samantha Knight

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e Sydney Morning Herald, 4th August 1999, page 12
  2. ^ a b Sydney Morning Herald, 4th August 1999, page 1
  3. ^ The Glebe, 13th July 1994, page 3
  4. ^ Walks in Sydney Harbour National Park, Neil Paton, Kangaroo Press, 1987, page 2
  5. ^ Daily Telegraph, 1st October 1996, page 3
  6. ^ Daily Telegraph, 29th September 1996, page 1
  7. ^ Daily Telegraph, 23rd February 2001, page 4
  8. ^ Daily Telegraph, 29th August 2002, page 3
  9. ^ Sydney Morning Herald, 29th August 2002, page 2

[edit] Bibliography

  • The Glebe, 13th July 1994
  • Daily Telegraph, 29th September 1996
  • Daily Telegraph, 1st October 1996
  • Sydney Morning Herald, 4th August 1999
  • Daily Telegraph, 22nd February 2001
  • Daily Telegraph, 23rd FEbruary 2001
  • Sydney Morning Herald, 23rd February 2001
  • Daily Telegraph, 25th February 2001
  • Daily Telegraph, 9th April 2002
  • Daily Telegraph, 10th April 2002
  • Daily Telegraph, 19th April 2002
  • Daily Telegraph, 27th April 2002
  • Sydney Morning Herald, 8th June 2002
  • Daily Telegraph, 29th August 2002
  • Sydney Morning Herald, 29th August 2002
  • The Sun-Herald, 26th November 2006

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