In September 2025, Julian Knight (a political prisoner), after 38 years since his Canberran nightclub nose bashing by RMC Duntroon senior cadet Philip Reed (23 May 1987) , finally received the medical treatment he was due and had requested many times.
That background story from RMC Duntroon 1987 again:
Julian recounts in his legal Personal Account to the DART, which politically contrived DART ignored:
“On the morning of Monday 25 May 1987, I was examined at 5 Camp Hospital by a Navy doctor, Lieutenant P.J. NEWBERY, who sent me into Civic to have my head x-rayed at a medical centre. The x-rays indicated that I had an undisplaced nose fracture but no other cranial fractures.
(yet) As a result, Lieutenant NEWBERY passed me as ‘Fit for Restricted Duty’ only, and recommended that I be employed as a “Command Post Warrior” (HQ signaller) during the upcoming field exercise FEX “Samichon”. Later that afternoon I attended the 21st Dental Unit, located in a wing of the 5 Camp Hospital, to have my damaged front teeth treated. The Army dentist, Captain A.J. LYNHAM, filed down the chipped lower front tooth and filled in the chipped upper tooth.”
Julian (Sep 2025):
“As for GPs, if the Army doctor at 5 Camp Hospital (RMC Duntroon) had treated my nose in 1987, I would not be awaiting nose surgery in 2025.”
Julian required ‘rhinoplasty’ (from Ancient Greek meaning ‘nose’ ‘moulding’). So what the nose surgeon in 2025 had to do was the following, as Julian (Sep 2025) accounted:
“I met the surgeon a couple of months ago. She said she would cut the base of my nose then drill out the crushed cartilage. Just getting the carburettor ports re- opened and polished…”
For the surgical procedure, Julian went into St Augustine’s prisoners secure ward of St Vincent’s Hospital (Fitzroy) around lunchtime on Thursday 18th September 2025 and had the surgery that afternoon. The surgery took two and a half hours because his nose had been so badly mangled (by Philip Reed*) inside. He was naturally underwent general anaesthetic and so had to stay overnight. The next afternoon he was then discharged and transported back to Port Phillip Prison the next day in the afternoon, Friday 19th September 2025.
* [NOTE: RMC Staff Cadet Philip Reed had been in 1987 the First Class senior cadet CO (acting Commanding Officer) of Julian’s training company at RMC Duntroon, Kokoda Company. It would be Reed that Third Class Staff Cadet Julian Knight would just a week later (31st May) notoriously take vengeance against at the same Canberra nightclub. Reed was a much larger man than Julian, approaching twice Julian’s weight back then, and his endorsed bullying demanded and got the absolute backing of his personal gang of Kokoda Company senior cadet bully henchmen].
Philip (Mongo) Reed’s Duntroon Henchmen (as documented by Julian Knight):
- Craig Thorp
- Nicholas Everingham
- Ashley Colman
- Robert Hamburger
- Dale Burnside
- Michael Thomson
- Matthew Thomson
- James Muntz
- William Yates
- Harry Walden
- Michael Dunkley
Julian (Sep 2025):
“My head feels like it has been punched but not as bad as when it was originally broken. It will bleed for a few days and the stents come out in a week. No heavy lifting for two weeks, so no move, then no training for 6 weeks. Came back to find my cell trashed. Nice.”
Julian was due to be transferred from Port Phillip Prison (PPP) to Loddon Prison on Friday 19th September 2025 due to government’s looming closure of PPP, but because of post-operation medical restrictions that was delayed for at least two weeks.
He would eventually be transferred to Loddon Prison just one week later on Friday 26th September 2025.
Julian (Sep 2025):
“My head still feels like it has been hit with a baseball bat and I cannot lift anything over 5 kgs for another week and tomorrow is a public holiday in Victoria, but I think they are going to transfer me to Loddon tomorrow.”
But that early transfer proved to be poor logistical timing by G4S, since on the Monday 29th September, just three days later, the rhinoplasty surgeon required Julian to be transferred again back to St Augustine’s prisoners secure ward of St Vincent’s Hospital (Fitzroy), this time from Loddon Prison instead of Port Phillip Prison, to have his nose stitches and stents removed. The dedicate prisoner transport was required to wait and then transport Julian back to Loddon Prison.
