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Published: 12:42 BST, 27 May 2019 | Updated: 12:42 BST, 27 May 2019
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A notorious paedophile child killer was released on to the streets 20 times during his 17-year prison sentence for fatally drugging nine-year-old Samantha Knight.
Michael Anthony Guider, 68, pleaded guilty in 2002 to the manslaughter of the young girl after she was last seen on a Bondi street in August 1986 - and is due for release in 11 days.
The state government has begun a legal bid to keep him locked up and with a preliminary hearing on Monday being told he had been allowed 20 'day leaves' because he was a 'model prisoner.'
Victims and their families in the gallery reacted in shock to the news.
The former gardener and part-time babysitter, who was already serving sentences for abusing 13 children between 1980 and 1996, has never revealed where he dumped Samantha's body.
Guider admitted killing Samantha to two prisoners in the late 1990s but didn't plead guilty until just before he was due to go on trial for her murder
Michael Anthony Guider, 68, pleaded guilty in 2002 to the manslaughter of the young girl after she was last seen on a Bondi street in August 1986
The day leaves into the community were not under guard as he was only escorted by a chaplain and made to wear an electronic monitoring anklet.
The NSW Supreme Court on Monday, hearing the last-ditch legal bid to keep him behind bars, was told Guider has gone back on his guilty plea and now claims he only admitted killing
