This week marks 35 years since the atrocities of the 1987 Hoddle Street massacre which killed seven people and injured 19 more.
In the latest episode of Real Crime: Australian Detectives, Adam Shand has sat down with retired Detective Senior Constable Graham Kent to discuss what it was like to assess Julian Knight: the ‘wannabe soldier turned murderer’ who actually took the detectives through a step-by-step reenactment of his crimes.
“His [Alan Bartolomeo-forensic psychiatrist] assessment was, unequivocally, there’s no mental illness. He was not mad, not even in the lay sense, but he was certainly not mad in a legal sense. However, he had a personality disorder… I think some would describe it as – he’s a prick – basically. Narcissistic, self centred.”
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