Tuesday 18 October 2022 05:25 AM Russell Manser's tales of backpacker Murderer Ivan Milat and Central Coast ... trends now
A former inmate of Australia's toughest maximum security jails has revealed what it was like to be locked up with infamous serial killers Ivan Milat and Malcolm Baker.
Reformed bank robber Russell Manser posted a video titled 'Ivan Milat and other psychopaths' to his hugely popular Instagram and TikTok accounts, where he vividly describes prison life.
Milat, who was also known as the Backpacker Murderer, died in Sydney's Long Bay jail in 2019 after 25 years of being shuffled around NSW's highest security jails.
Former inmate Russell Manser has posted a new video on his popular social media channels that tell stories of prison life, this time recalling his interactions with infamous serial killers Ivan Milat and Malcolm Baker
Manser said he was not impressed by the man who murdered seven people in the 1990s, mostly female hitchhikers that he lured into his car and left in the Belanglo State Forest when they met in Maitland Gaol, which closed in 1998.
'Ivan Milat wasn’t a big bloke,' Manser said.
'He would have been about five foot, nine inches, maybe 70kg. That’s not a real big bloke in jails, blokes are normally pretty big and fit.
'He obviously posed no real threat to anyone.'
Milat, who became known as the Backpacker Murderer, bizarrely like to pose in photo as a Wild West sheriff
Manser said that he would 'have backed himself' against Milat even if he was wielding an improvised stabbing weapon, known in jails as a 'shiv'.
He said when his mother visited him in jail she immediately spotted the distinctive killer, whose handlebar moustache and widely published photos posing as a wild west-style 'sheriff' displaying weapons had made him instantly recognisable.
'My poor old mum... my mum was just a salt of the Earth woman and she goes 'that’s Ivan Milat',' Manser said.
'I said 'do you want to meet him?',' he asked.
