The paedophile who drugged, molested and killed nine-year-old Bondi schoolgirl Samantha Knight more than 30 years ago is set to walk free from prison.
Michael Anthony Guider will be released from the Metropolitan Special Programs Centre at Long Bay on June 6 unless the New South Wales government wins last-minute court action to keep him inside.
The 69-year-old has never publicly expressed any remorse for killing Sam - which he claimed was accidental - and her body has never been found.
Sam's disappearance from near her mother's home in Sydney's eastern suburbs led to one of the largest searches in Australian history and remained a mystery for 15 years.
Parents across the country changed the way they considered their children's safety as hundreds of thousands of posters were distributed featuring smiling images of the confident little girl.
Samantha Knight was just nine years old when she was snatched from a street at Bondi in Sydney's eastern suburbs. Paedophile Michael Guider claimed he gave the schoolgirl sleeping pills so he could molest her but she overdosed and died. Guider is due to be released from jail
Michael Anthony Guider was a gardener who befriended the vulnerable mothers of children he wanted to molest. He offered to babysit their children then drugged and molested them. He was serving a 16-year sentence when police learnt he had killed nine-year-old Sam Knight
Paedophile Michael Guider claimed he buried Sam Knight's body in Cooper Park at Bellevue Hill in Sydney's eastern suburbs then dug up her body 18 months later when he saw workmen in the area. He said he dumped Sam's remains at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron at Kirribilli
The NSW Attorney-General, Mark Speakman, has moved to stop Guider's release by launching court action which would keep the serial child sex offender behind bars for another year.
Last Friday Mr Speakman filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking a 12-month continuing detention order against Guider as well as an additional five-year extended supervision order.
That second order would have 'stringent conditions controlling where the offender lives, where he can go and who he can associate with,' Mr Speakman told Daily Mail Australia.
Those conditions were likely to include electronic monitoring.
'NSW has the toughest post-sentence detention and supervision laws in the country which make community safety the priority,' Mr Speakman said.
'Any further comment from me while this matter is before the court would be inappropriate.'
Guider does not need to apply for parole because his maximum sentence expires on June 6.
Sam Knight was seen on the afternoon she went missing from near her home at Bondi walking the streets in her school uniform. Hundreds of thousands of posters featuring her image were plastered around Australia and could still be seen for years after her 1986 disappearance
This is the block of flats in Imperial Avenue, Bondi, where Sam Knight lived with her mother Tess in 1986 as it is today. Michael Guider had acted as a babysitter for Sam and many other pre-pubescent girls whose mothers he befriended. He assaulted the girls after drugging them
Sam was one of perhaps scores of children aged two to 16 Guider molested over many years. His usual method
