[The Knighthood’ as collective authors of this herein website, comply with the Australian Copyright Act 1968, No. 63, 1968 (Compilation No. 58) amended from 16th January 2019, Part III, Division 3, Clauses 41, 41A and 42 in our ‘regurgitating’ the cohort of published media outpourings on Julian Knight in this section of this website ‘Media Scrutiny’. We do so for the purpose of review, criticism, satire and correcting the fake news reporting and propaganda. The Knighthood’s critique are included in the context wrapped in square brackets, bold italic text.]
Well, she calls herself a journalist, yet in the following ABC media article by her, we read little journalistic code of ethics (MEAA) adherence – as in a commitment to (1) Honesty, (2) Fairness, (3) Independence or (4) Respect for the rights of others (that is to prisoner Julian Knight).
‘Hoddle Street killer won’t be forgotten’
Thu 9 Aug 2007, by Jane Cowan, ABC meda, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-08-09/hoddle-street-killer-wont-be-forgotten/635402
‘Almost a decade before Port Arthur, in August 1987, a gunman took two rifles and a shotgun onto a Melbourne street and changed it forever. Today marks 20 years since the Hoddle Street massacre that left seven people dead and another 19 nursing injuries, as well as psychological scars.
Failed army cadet Julian Knight is serving a life sentence for the murders. He was 19 at the time.
[Knighthood correction: No, incessantly bullied and bastardised for 6 continual months by RMC senior cadets]
Recently he stirred up fresh outrage by making moves to contact one of his victims.
Senior Constable Daryl Jones was in the police helicopter sent to the scene of what became known as the Hoddle Street massacre.
“Hoddle Street was uneasily quiet,” he said.
“There were cars parked at odd angles in the middle of the road, there was a motorbike lying on its side, and there were people lying in very strange places on the road. They were just lying there in the middle of the road.”
Forty-five minutes later, six people were dead, one was dying and 19 were wounded. The next day, with his wrists in handcuffs, Knight retraced his steps with detectives in a chilling re-enactment, captured on police video. The following is a transcript of part of that video.
JULIAN KNIGHT: “The first one fell onto the road, and then the second one, I don’t know where, where he came from, but I dropped him as well.”
POLICE OFFICER: “Now, did they appear to be dead, when you..?”
JULIAN KNIGHT: “The one that fell back on the road wasn’t.”
POLICE OFFICER: “What happened then?”
JULIAN KNIGHT: “Oh, I let off another two rounds.”
POLICE OFFICER: “For what purpose?”
JULIAN KNIGHT: “Finish her off.”
[Knighthood comment: Knight’s RMC military {training?} kicking in? He had a psychotic episode since his experiences at Duntroon just weeks and months prior. So train a soldier, abuse a soldier, bastardise a soldier, bully a soldier by his senior peers, so many an officer cadet soldier resigns in disgust and he was forced to in 1987. But instead this hard juior soldier took payback revenge. One can only take so much psychological crap. Had the Duntroon cadets not vandalised his car Hoddle Street would have instead been his shooting spree at the Royal Military College – a precursor to Fort Hood of 2009. And what year did Full Metal Jacket get released? 1987.]
Life sentence
Julian Knight is now serving a life sentence inside Victoria’s Barwon Prison and has been far from a model inmate. In 2002, he did a stint in solitary confinement, after knives and maps of the prison were found in his cell.
[Knighthood correction: No, Knight’s custodial sentence was 27 years when in 2014 he was to be judicially eligible to apply for parole. No, Knight was threatened and assaulted by both prison wardens and other prisoners whilst in Pentridge Prison and also then at Barwon Prison. His shiv was for his own personal protection to death threats whilst in custody].
And the year before, Knight caused a review of inmate education after it was revealed he took a course on military strategy and weapons systems from inside jail.
[Knighthood correction: No, Knight was threatened and assaulted by both wardens and other prisoners whilst in Pentridge Prison and also then in Barwon Prison. The shiv was for his own personal protection].
He has made so many complaints about his treatment in prison that the Supreme Court has declared him a vexatious litigant.
Victorian Police Minister Bob Cameron says Knight is a difficult case for the prison system.
“He has been a very difficult customer,” he said.
“He’s one of these people that just simply isn’t showing signs of remorse, that you would expect.”
[Knighthood correction: No, upon his arrest in 1987 Knight immediately confessed his guilt to police. On 8th October 2006, Knight wrote a letter of “Remorse” to the Adult Parole Board see PDF copy embedded below. Such fake media make up lies to suit their biased agenda. Later in 2017, Knight also again wrote and open letter of remorse towards the victims and a public apology as his genuine admission of remorse – see PDF copy embedded below. ]
Parole
But the convicted murderer says he wants to be rehabilitated.
Knight becomes eligible for parole in seven years time, and in a bid to boost his chances of release, he has been trying to write to one of his victims, to apologise.
Prison authorities initially intercepted the letter but the Supreme Court has now ruled Knight is free to challenge that decision. That has prompted the State Government to step in.
[Knighthood comment: The Victorian State Government’s legislation has been a Constitutional breach of the Separation of Powers. Such is “indefinite detention” enacted by the Victorian Government! What of the November 2023 NZYQ case in the High Court? How inconsistent the High Court Bench’s erring?]
In one of his first acts as Victorian Premier, John Brumby has set about drafting new laws to ban inappropriate correspondence between prisoners and their victims.
Mr Cameron supports the laws.
“Prisoners are sent to jail to be taken out of society, and as a punishment, while they’re in jail, they shouldn’t be able to torment people even more.”
[Knighthood comment: No, Cameron, remorse ain’t torment. Buy a dictionary and read it!]
Sitting in his jail cell, it is unclear how Julian Knight is taking the publicity surrounding this 20-year commemoration. His image is once again splashed across the pages of newspapers and there has already been a one-hour special on commercial television. Mr Cameron says he can not stop publicity, but he can try to limit the effects Knight’s actions have on innocent people.
“If Julian Knight is getting some sort of perverse satisfaction, there’s nothing we can do about that,” he said. “But what we can do is make sure that that sort of perverse satisfaction isn’t going to result in him trying to torment other people by correspondence, and that’s why we’re taking steps to stop it.”
[Knighthood comment: Good luck!]
[Knighthood critique: we observe the repeated breaches of MEAA journalistic ethical standards in the above article by Jane Cowan, most notably:
(1) Reporting dishonestly, inaccurately, unfairly and failing to dissclose all the essential facts. Julian ius denied any right of reply of course.
(2) No source, only opinion, and selective biased opinion by Victorian Police Minister Bob Cameron with a personal axe to grind.
(3) Full of errors and bias. Key facts such as Knight’s written public remorse in 2006 was a suppression of relevant available facts, to give a distorted emphasis.
(4) No fair opportunity for reply by Knight was requested by Jane Cowan. (Jane Coward?)
References and Further Reading (by The Knighthood):
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