JUSTICE FOR SAMANTHA
If Samantha Knight was still alive, she would be 42 years old. She might be married with a couple of kids of her own. She might be living overseas, pursing a career in the arts or academia, or living on a farm somewhere in rural NSW. She was a little girl whose life and vitality promised so much.
But Samantha Knight is not alive. That hopeful future never came to be. Instead, Samantha will forever remain the blonde, green-eyed, nine-year-old child depicted in her family’s photographs, a little girl frozen in time and place, a little girl whose innocence and life were stolen by a monster.
Samantha – Sam as she was known to family and friends – disappeared from a Bondi street close to her home on the afternoon of August 19, 1986. She had popped out to go to the local shops, but never returned – a little girl who vanished and left behind one of Sydney’s longest running and most confronting mysteries.
Michael Guider is a serial paedophile, a man convicted of Samantha Knight’s manslaughter and another 75 child abuse charges. He currently languishes in a NSW
