Serial pedophile and Samantha Knight killer Michael Guider walks free

“You’re a dog,” a woman yelled at child killer Michael Guider as he shuffled out of jail.

Notorious pedophile and child killer Michael Guider has walked out of jail a free man after serving more than 17 years for the manslaughter of nine-year-old girl Samantha Knight.

Just before 3pm Guider walked down the hill from the main gate of Long Bay Correctional Complex, now balding, grey, and bearded. He wore a baggy grey, polo t-shirt and loose-fitting trousers which concealed what is understood to be a large tumour.

The pedophile shuffled into a car, driven by prison security to his new “halfway house” accommodation, attached to the jail, the Nunyara Community Centre.

He wore dark sunglasses and clutched two black garbage bags which he packed into the boot, and ignored questions from reporters demanding to know where the young girl’s body is.

Guider’s release from jail after 23 years follows a protracted legal challenge by Attorney-General Mark Speakman to keep him behind bars after his sentence expired in June.

Michael Guider walks out of Long Bay Correctional facility a free man pic.twitter.com/vFZhBkT7mI

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On Tuesday, the prospect of Guider’s release being stopped was quashed following legal advice to the NSW government.

Mr Speakman was told there were no grounds to appeal a decision by the NSW Supreme Court.

Guider enters a car after walking free. Picture: Adam Yip

Michele Koroi, who lives in the area, was outside Long Bay correctional facility, was outside the jail yelled at Guider as he drove out of the facility: “you’re a dog, and you’ll never change, you should stay locked up”.

Ms Koroi said she was concerned for her own grandchildren who live in the area.

“These men they should be castrated,” Ms Koroi said.

“Samantha Knight touched my heart because I have 23 grandchildren,” Ms Koroi, who came to protest Guider’s release.

Cries of “you’re a dog” greeted Guider upon his release. Picture: Adam Yip

She said her young granddaughter will be kept inside more often since Guider has been released from jail.

Guider’s new accommodation will be “halfway” house accommodation, attached to the jail, the Nunyara Community Centre.

Guider, 68, killed Samantha Knight after he snatched her off a street in Sydney’s Bondi Beach in August 1986 while she was walking to a shop to buy pencils.

By the time he was ­arrested for Samantha’s killing in 2001 Guider was already in jail for sex offences against 13 young boys and girls, committed between 1980 and 1996.

Guider had taken photos of his victims, drugging some of them with soft drinks spiked with Temazepam before raping them and taking photos as they slept.

Guider carried two bags of possessions as he left. Picture: Toby Zerna. Photographer: Adam Yip