- Authorities confirmed the inmate died Saturday morning.
A twisted paedophile who was found responsible for the death of schoolgirl Samantha Knight has died in custody.
A spokesman for the NSW Department of Corrections confirmed that Michael Guider, 73, died at Prince of Wales Hospital on Saturday morning at around 7.25am.
Daily Mail Australia understands he suffered a medical episode.
“As a matter of protocol, NSW Corrective Services and NSW Police investigate all deaths in custody regardless of the circumstances,” the spokesperson said.
In 1986, Guider abducted Sydney schoolgirl Samantha Knight from her home in Bondi and drugged her, resulting in a subsequent conviction for murder.
He also abused other children over two decades and has shown no remorse for Samantha’s killing, which he once claimed was accidental and recently said he did not commit.
Guider was released from prison in 2019 but was arrested again in 2022 for violating conditions related to his five-year extended supervision order.
He never said where he left the schoolgirl’s body, and its location is unlikely to be revealed after her death.
Michael Guider (pictured in 2022) died in hospital while in custody at Long Bay Prison.
Michael Guider kidnapped, drugged and killed nine-year-old schoolgirl Samantha Knight in 1986. She was abducted near her home in Bondi and her remains have never been found.
For the first six months of his release in 2019, Guider was locked up in a secure facility attached to the Long Bay prison complex along with other offenders too troubled to return to society.
But in March 2020, the hated paedophile was quietly moved out of the Nunyara Community Offender Support Programme centre in Malabar and placed in new permanent accommodation.
This angered and frustrated some of Guider’s surviving victims, who said that at the time authorities had refused to reveal where their tormentor now lived.
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