[Neil Mitchell (1951- ) is a Melbourne-centric opinion talk-back commentator of Radio 3AW, which is commercially owned by Nine Entertainment. Mitchell messages the conservative side of politics in Victoria and stages regular radio interviews with Victorian Liberal Party politicians and senior law enforcement. Mitchell previously was a journalist with the Melbourne-based Herald Sun and The Age newspapers. Mitchell holds an AO for ‘shock jocking’. Mitchell’s hatefilled opinions and condemnation for Julian Knight (but conspicuously not accusing Duntroon) are perpetually evident from his following broadcasted opinions].
6th April 2016: ‘Anger over Hoddle St killer Julian Knight posting on website’
by Neil Mitchell, https://www.3aw.com.au/ANGER-OVER-HODDLE-ST-KILLER-JULIAN-KNIGHT-POSTING-ON-WEBSITE-20160406-GNZGTY/
‘A man who lost a close friend in the Hoddle Street massacre is appealing for everyone to shut up about Julian Knight, in the hope he’ll go away.
A stunned Neil Mitchell says it’s disgraceful Knight has been allowed to pen a ‘dictionary for prison slang’ online.
3AW Mornings caller John lost a young female friend when she was fatally shot by Knight as she drove down Hoddle St with her baby on August 9, 1987.
‘I actually had lunch with that baby on Sunday and his young daughter,’ John said. ‘It just doesn’t go away. ‘And when we hear about this person, it tends to upset a lot of people.
‘The less we hear about him, the better.’Prison advocacy group Justice Action runs the website Knight posts on, which has been coined ‘Facebook for criminals’ by some.
Despite his horrific crimes, Brett Collins from Justice Action said Knight had the right to a voice.
But Neil Mitchell said the victims also had rights. And they should come first.
Neil Mitchell: ‘Julian Knight’s been a serial pest in jail. He’s not just a mass murderer; he’s been a vexatious litigant and a serial pest.’
Brett Collins: ‘To call him that is not really fair.’
Neil: ‘I don’t care about being ‘fair’ to Julian Knight, I’m afraid.’
Brett Collins: ‘He has legal rights.’
Neil: ‘Tell him to sue me.’
15th November 2017: ‘Sly of the Underworld explains the chilling details in Julian Knight’s schoolboy drawings’
‘Hoddle Street killer Julian Knight’s chilling schoolboy drawings have been revealed.
Sly of the Underworld said the disturbing cartoons feature a character, Seymour the mouse, clearly based on Knight.
The cartoons were drawn in a friend’s diary.
They have never been studied by the police or a psychologist, and have only recently come to light.
“As these frames go on, he gets bigger and stronger and more violent,” Sly of the Underworld said on 3AW Breakfast.
“In one frame he actually shoots and kills 16 people.
“Clearly he had the fantasy about mass shootings in this sort of military type operation years beforehand.”
13th August 2020: ‘Why a former top cop is ‘sick and tired’ of hearing about Julian Knight’
by Dee Dee Dunleavy, https://www.3aw.com.au/WHY-FORMER-TOP-COP-IS-SICK-AND-TIRED-OF-HEARING-ABOUT-JULIAN-KNIGHT/
‘Former top homicide cop Charlie Bezzina says he’s “sick and tired” of hearing about Julian Knight, but says it’s important to find out how the Hoddle Street killer got contraband into his jail cell.
Speaking in his regular spot on 3AW Afternoons, Mr Bezzina said he was concerned that some prisoners got life too comfortable behind bars. Knight was taken to hospital after going on a hunger strike after contraband (believed to be drugs) [it was pain medication for his untreated chronic crohns bowel disease) was found in his cell.
Bezzina:
“I was outraged, like everybody else. I’m sick and tired of media bringing up Julian Knight. He should be put in a dark box and put away somewhere.”