Hoddle Street massacre
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The Hoddle Street massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on the evening of Sunday, 9 August 1987, in Hoddle Street, Clifton Hill, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, in Australia.[1] The shootings resulted in the deaths of seven people, and serious injury to 19 others.[1] After a police chase lasting more than 30 minutes, 19-year-old former Australian Army officer cadet Julian Knight was caught in nearby Fitzroy North and arrested for the shootings.
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Location | Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia |
Coordinates | 37°47′24″S 144°59′42″E |
Date | 9 August 1987; 36 years ago (1987-08-09) 9:29 pm – 10:14 pm (UTC+10) |
Target | Civilians, police and passing-by cars in Hoddle Street |
Attack type | Mass murder, massacre |
Weapons | |
Deaths | 7 |
Injured | 19 |
Perpetrator | Julian Knight |
Motive | Unknown |
Knight was later sentenced to seven concurrent sentences of life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 27 years for what was described by the presiding judge as "one of the bloodiest massacres in Australian history".[2] The Crown prosecutor, Joe Dickson QC, "did not contend that a minimum term should not be fixed".[2] Knight was imprisoned in the maximum security Port Phillip Prison in Truganina near Melbourne and was eligible for parole in 2014. Shortly before Knight became eligible for parole, the Victorian Government amended the Corrections Act 1986 to prevent the parole board from ordering Knight's release on parole "unless satisfied, amongst other things, that Mr Knight is in imminent danger of dying or is seriously incapacitated and that, as a result, he no longer has the physical ability to do harm to any person".[3][4]