Michael Guider died never revealing where he put Samantha Knight’s remains

The mother of Bondi schoolgirl Samantha Knight says serial pedophile Michael Guider’s death has failed to bring an end to the depths of her pain at losing her daughter.

Tess Knight appealing for information about her missing daughter Samantha, in 1986.

The mother of Bondi schoolgirl Samantha Knight says serial pedophile Michael Guider’s death in custody has failed to bring an end to the depths of her pain.

“He’s dead, it was expected, but closure? That’s a word I won’t ever understand, I will never get over Samantha’s death,” Tess Knight said.

“He (Guider) was never going to reveal what he did with my daughter’s (body).”

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Ms Knight said Guider’s death didn’t change a great deal for her, “except the community is a little bit safer, which is a big thing.”

Corrective Services NSW confirmed Guider died last week at the Prince of Wales Hospital.

Tess Knight will never know where her daughter’s remains lie. Picture: AAP Image

Samantha Knight was just nine years old when she was killed. Picture: Supplied

Ms Knight, who still replays in her mind how her daughter vanished from her Bondi unit in 1986 when she was nine, is convinced Guider, 73, would never have revealed where he disposed of Samantha’s body.

The gardener was already serving a 16-year sentence imposed in 1996 for some 66 crimes against 11 children when he was arrested in February 2001.

A year later he pleaded guilty to her manslaughter but never revealed where her body was.

He confessed he gave Samantha an overdose of sleeping pills so he could molest her and “take happy snaps”, the courts previously heard.

He was released in 2019 after spending nine years behind bars and placed under a strict extended supervision order.

Serial pedophile Michael Anthony Guider was released from prison in 2019, but sent back in 2022. Picture: Toby Zerna

Police allegedly discovered a cache of pornography and child abuse material on his phone during a routine inspection at his Fairfield Heights home and rearrested him in September 2022. He had been behind bars ever since.

Chantelle Daly, one of Guider’s victims, said: “Guider wont be missed, but unfortunately will be remembered.

“He changed the course of so many people’s lives in the worst way possible, and the only justice now is that the monster who’s plagued my dreams will have to face the devil for eternity.”

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