Ivan Milat death inquest: Serial killer asked not to be revived

Backpacker killer Ivan Milat died alone but was given “care and comfort” in the months before his death, an inquest has heard.

Heartless serial killer Ivan Milat was given “care and comfort” in the months before he died of cancer but asked not to be resuscitated, an inquest into his death has been told today.

Milat, 74, died alone in cell 32 at around 4am on October 27 2019 in Long Bay jail’s acute medical unit but his family was annoyed that the public found out through the media before they did.

Milat killed seven backpackers.

Milat refused to speak even in his dying days.

The final police interview held with Milan.

Deputy State Coroner Derek Lee has found that the backpacker killer died of natural causes of oesophageal cancer.

None of his family was at Lidcombe Coroners Court to see the last court case involving the monster.

His next-of-kin brother Bill Milat had been asked but refused to make a statement on behalf of the family.

Milat had been in jail since he was arrested in 1994. He was later sentenced to life for the murders of the seven backpackers who were raped, stabbed, shot and in one case beheaded, in the Belanglo State Forest south of Sydney between 1989 and 1993. He was also convicted of the abduction of Paul Onions.

Linked to at least a dozen other unsolved murders, Milat maintained his defiant silence despite being on his deathbed and questioned again by detectives.

Originally published as Ivan Milat death inquest: Serial killer asked not to be revived