INTRO:

By way of background, at about 11:30 pm on Sunday 9th August 1987, Julian Knight was arrested with his then empty M14 assault rifle on the pavement by two Victoria Police officers in a laneway next to 227 McKean Street in Fitzroy North (inner Melbourne).  He was held in police custody then prison remand until on Tuesday 10th November 1988, some 15 months later, when Mr Knight was sentenced by the Honourable Justice HAMPEL in the Supreme Court of Victoria to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole term of 27 years – so till 2014.

During Mr Knight’s remand term (Aug 1987-Nov 1988), whilst awaiting the Court hearing (not a trial, since Knight had immediately confessed and pleaded guilty), Mr Knight was initially interrogated by various detectives and the Crown Prosecution, and also interviewed by various psychiatrists and psychologists as experts witnesses for the Supreme Court.  As part of that interview process, Mr Knight was subjected (voluntarily) to an IQ test.

In Mr Knight’s own words:

“In February 1988, after neuropsychological testing with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Revised (WAIS-R) in November 1987, I was assessed as having a full scale IQ of 132 (placing me in the top 2.2% of the population).”

 

KNIGHT’S PRISON TRANSFERS:

Once incarcerated in prison to serve his sentence, initially in H.M. Prison Pentridge H-Division (1987-1994).  Then in 1994 he was transferred to H.M. Prison Barwon (1994-2005), then transferred again to the newly built Port Phillip Prison since 2005 where he currently remains as at 2024.

 

KNIGHT’S SELF-EDUCATION IN PRISON:

From the outset of his realisation of his custodial life sentence, at the first opportunity Mr Knight embarked on his self re-education for the duration.

Again, in Mr Knight’s own words:

“During 1988-1995, I studied a Bachelor of Arts degree course part-time and off-campus via Deakin University.

In May 1996, I was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Strategic Defence Studies from Deakin University.

In 2009, I commenced a Bachelor of Liberal Studies degree course part-time and off-campus via Curtin University of Technology.

In 2010, I transferred to the Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice degree course part-time and off-campus via Griffith University.

In 2012, I was offered a Commonwealth Supported Place with respect to my Griffith University studies as a result of the high results I had obtained.”

 

[SOURCE:  ‘PERSONAL ACCOUNT‘ (of Mr Knight’s detailed account of the sustained abuse experience he suffered whilst training as an Army officer staff cadet at the Royal Military College at Duntroon), prepared by and submitted by Mr Knight to the Defence Abuse Response Taskforce from prison, dated 26th November 2023,  p.93.]

So, Mr Knight holds two undergraduates degrees.  He hasn’t wasted his time.   In recognition his above qualifications, Mr Knight’s postnominals read:

Mr. Julian Knight, BA, BCCJ

Since 2012, he has subsequently repeatedly requested the prison powers that be grant him an opportunity to further his academic studies to more advanced post-graduate university levels – by distance education obviously.

 

KNIGHT DENIED A COMPUTER AND INTERNET SINCE 2015:

Corrections Victoria through its outsourced the Port Phillip Prison corporation of the foreign-owned G4S, has since 6th June 2015 confiscated from Mr Knight all his computer hardware, software and denied his Internet access.  This has so denied Mr Knight from continuing his university studies under this very ‘Victorian’ prison system.

Nevertheless, since May 2014 Mr Knight has been condemned as a Political Prisoner by the very ‘Victorian’ Parliament under unelected short-term Premier Denis Napthine (2013-2014), by its unconstitutional usurpation of Mr Knight’s Judicial sentence.

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KNIGHT’s Prison Literature (herein):

Mr Knight has dabbled in prose, essays, papers, legal submissions, court statements and even cartoons on various reflective topics of his interest over the years of his incarceration.  These literary works are appropriately reproduced in the attached webpages on this website.  They are listed in chronological order of being written by Mr Knight witH the respective years shown in brackets.

Click the respective hyperlinks below:

1. Poem:  ‘The Meaning of Life‘    (2007)

2. Poem: ‘Reception‘    (2008)

3. Social Media: [iExpress.com.au webpage of Mr Knight‘s]   (since 2008)

4. Essay:  ‘A Penological Redirection for Victoria‘   (2008-2010)

5. Paper:  ‘The Prison (as the sum of its parts)‘    (2009)

6. Poem: ‘The Freedom of the Sky‘   (2010)

7. Paper:  ‘HM Prison Pentridge’s H-Division:  My Experience‘   (2011)

8. Book:  ‘Dictionary of Victorian Prison Slang‘    (2014)

9. Paper:  ‘It’s 2014 or Never‘    (2014)

10. Paper:  ‘RMC Duntroon & Bastardization‘    (2015)

11. Letter:  ‘Petition of Mercy‘   (2015)

12. Paper:  ‘The Abolition of Prisons‘   (2019)

[Note that additional written works by Mr Knight can be found on the webpage KNIGHT’s Prison Literature on this website.

COMMENTS FROM ‘THE KNIGHTHOOD’: 

Some 25 years after 1987, former army mates of Mr Knight re-established contact with him in 2012.  This was approaching Mr Knight’s due time set for parole and also during the Defence abuse scandals and reparations by a guilt-ridden Australia Government of the day (but not by the ADF, of course).

This website was ultimately established in 2022 by his mates – ‘The Knighthood’ set up to disclose the truth and to challenge Mr Knight’s treatment as a Political Prisoner of the Victorian Parliament since 8th May 2014, the judicial end of his Court-imposed criminal sentence.

From experience, unlike patriotic Australian soldiers, the Australian Army bureaucracy doesn’t have any mates.  It’s sadistic self-centred ‘cover one’s arse’ culture is to jack on its own; in Duntroon’s case its been gone unchallenged since the ‘hazing’ of junior cadets by senior officer cadets from the very second intake back in 1912.   And the bureaucracies hateful cousins in DVA are overpaid bottom feeders akin to liquidators.   DVA’s motto:  ‘Delay, deny, wait till we die’, not the bandied ‘Service, Courage, Respect, Integrity, Excellence‘.  Nuh, that’s just pep talk sloganeering by Recruitment to the naïve junior ranked bushy-tailed fodder upon enlistment, before Day 1 drill.