Julian Knight (murderer)

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Julian Knight (born 4 March 1968) is an Australian mass murderer. On 9 August 1987, he shot seven people dead and injured 19 during a shooting spree in Clifton Hill, an inner eastern suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia, in what became known as the Hoddle Street massacre. On 10 November 1988, Knight pleaded guilty to seven counts of murder and 46 counts of attempted murder. He was sentenced by Justice George Hampel in the Supreme Court of Victoria to seven concurrent sentences of life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 27 years, due to expire on 8 May 2014. In his sentence remarks, J Hampel commented 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 , "…did not contend that a minimum term should not be fixed." It was claimed that the motive for Knight's actions was military heroism, while impaired judgement...

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