A serial paedophile who molested and killed a schoolgirl in a case that shocked Australia is set to walk free without restrictions after gaming the parole system.
Michael Guider, 69, spent just 17 years in jail for the 1986 killing of Samantha Knight, nine, who he snatched off a street near her mother's Bondi home.
The former gardener is set to be released from Sydney's Long Bay jail in June after serving his entire sentence, without ever applying for early release.
But the decision not to make parole submissions was a calculated move on Guider's behalf, police believe, allowing him to avoid a single release condition.
The serial paedophile who drugged, molested and killed nine-year-old Samantha Knight (pictured) is set to walk free from jail without any restrictions after making the calculated decision not to apply for parole
Michael Guider, 69, (pictured leaving court in 2002) who has never publicly expressed any remorse over the Bondi schoolgirl's death, will be released on June 6
The family of the young girl (pictured), who disappeared after school on August 19, 1986, have expressed their anguish that Sam's body has never been found
'As far as I'm aware, he's never appeared in person or entered any submissions, he's always said he wants to serve his sentence in full so he can walk free without restrictions,' Detective Chief Inspector Darren Sly told The Saturday Telegraph.
Guider first became eligible for release in June 2014 when the State Parole Authority refused to let him out and determined he could seek freedom the following year.
Parole was again refused in 2015 at which time the authority decided it would not consider his release again until 2017. Guider did not seek parole in 2017 or 2018.
Sam's mother Tess remains heartbroken by the loss of her child, and is still seeking closure decades on.
'Her body has never been found, until it is, how can we move on?' she said.
The New South Wales 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
