Lynise Milat opens up on her love for terminally-ill serial killer dad Ivan Milat

The troubled love child of serial killer Ivan Milat has spoken about how people shout at her in the street and she cannot leave the house for days for fear of reprisals. But she refuses to ditch her infamous name.

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The love child of serial killer Ivan Milat has told of her pride at being born into the notorious killer’s clan — revealing she steadfastly refuses to change her surname despite being ostracised, saying: “I’ll burn with my name”.

Supermarket service worker Lynise Milat, 54, told The Daily Telegraph in an exclusive interview: “I’ve decided I’ll burn with my name, I’m not changing it, they know I’m a Milat.”

The mother-of-one from the Central Coast has even been told by relatives to ditch the infamous surname synonymous with one of the country’s worst serial killers.

Ivan Milat’s most recent mug shot.

Lynise Milat, pictured in 1997, said she still loves her dad but doesn’t believe he should die in pain.

Speaking from her home in Gosford, where she lives a low key existence, she said: “I’m hoping staying with myself and name will bring forward truths.

“I want to show Ivan, even if he is on the wrong side of the fence on this one, I’m with him, we can laugh about it, he knows how I feel about him.

“I’m a square peg, I’m honest and I’m a bit naive.

“It’s been hard getting the dollars in … I’m trying to get my life together again but I have not always been successful.

“People know who I am in the area, they know I’m a Milat, it’s been hard.”

She said she did not know where to run.

“I don’t even want to.”

Lynise revealed she is sometimes too afraid to leave the house for fear of reprisals.

“People shout my name in the street, they know who I am but I’m not running, sometimes I don’t leave the house for days, I find it very difficult, I just have to keep baring it, I didn’t ask for my life to be public but I’ve had no choice… it’s the name,” she said.

She also damned her mother Marilyn with faint praise, describing her as “no angel.”

“Mum’s all right but she thinks Ivan’s a bit of a b*****d, she’s tough, she’s no angel herself,” she said,

“Everyone thinks Marilyn is the golden child but she knocked about with the wrong types. She thinks the worse someone is the safer you are, she’s tough.

“Her attitude is “I won’t let them get to me’.

“I’m all right with Ivan, he rolls the way he does, he’s not stingy but wants his rights in prison.”

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It was revealed last week Milat has been diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus.

Milat’s daughter doesn’t believe he is of the calibre of a serial killer.

Ms Milat prays her father doesn’t die in pain as he battles against cancer in his final days.

With tears in her eyes, she maintained her father may leave Prince of Wales Hospital to return to Goulburn or Long Bay jail, despite being given two weeks to live.

He has been diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus.

Although she accepts and loves Milat as her father, Ms Milat said she doesn’t always like him.

“I suppose I do have love for him, he’s my father, there are issues in the family with that, some don’t speak to us and I’ve had counselling for it.

“I don’t think when I look at him, ‘did he, didn’t he?’. I think he’s an arse and a character but he’s brutally honest, that’s not to say I always like him. But I will always love him. I don’t want him to die, he doesn’t deserve to be dying in pain in hospital, I’d rather not … see him.”

“He’s a very sick man. People say he’s got dementia, too. He doesn’t, he’s as sharp as a button (sic),” she said.

Lynise Milat in 1997.

“He’s been worn down by the boredom of prison and is tired of trying to prove his innocence.”

Milat is serving seven life sentences for the seven Belanglo state forest backpacker murders committed while he lived at home with his mother between 1989 and 1993.

Questioning the murder investigation, Ms Milat said: “If the police suspected him, why did they take so long to charge Ivan and allow him to build himself into a serial killer they say he was and let kids get murdered?

Milat is serving seven life sentences for seven Belanglo state forest backpack murders.

“Trust me, the police were always watching our family. There were drugs, weapons, girls being raped. Why not charge Ivan at the time if they had the evidence?”

It was an open family secret Milat fathered her during an illicit affair with his brother’s wife Marilyn.

She claims when she was five Milat took her to a police station to complain he would be “set up” by police or the public.

“I do not know if the police have got the wrong man. I know he’s a smart-arse … but I don’t know if he is of the calibre of a serial killer.”