'Mark my words, he will kill again': Chilling warning from a survivor of evil paedophile who snatched Samantha Knight, 9, and never revealed where he dumped her body - as he is set to be released in WEEKS
- Chantelle Hamilton, 30, is fighting against the release of Michael Guider
- Guider drugged and raped children, is responsible for death of Samantha Knight
- Ms Hamilton is convinced Guider will kill again if he is released from prison
- She has started petition to keep him locked up that has 100,000 plus signatures
A woman who survived being drugged and raped by a paedophile responsible for the death of a young girl is convinced he will kill again if he is released from prison.
Daily Mail Australia first revealed Michael Anthony Guider, 69, will be freed from the Metropolitan Special Programs Centre at Long Bay on June 6 unless the New South Wales government wins a court action to keep him inside.
Guider was serving a 16-year sentence imposed in 1996 for 60 offences against 11 children when police realised he was also responsible for one of Australia's most high-profile unsolved crimes - the death of nine-year-old Samantha Knight.
The schoolgirl disappeared from her mother's home in Sydney's eastern suburbs in 1986, leading to one of the largest searches in Australian history.
Another of Guider's victims, Chantelle Hamilton, 30, has issued a chilling warning as she fights his scheduled release.
Daily Mail Australia first revealed Michael Anthony Guider (pictured), 69, will be released from the Metropolitan Special Programs Centre at Long Bay on June 6
Guider was serving a 16-year sentence imposed in 1996 for 60 offences against 11 children when police realised he was responsible for one of Australia's most high-profile unsolved crimes - the death of nine-year-old schoolgirl Samantha Knight (pictured)
Another of Guider's victims, Chantelle Hamilton (pictured as a child), 30, has issued a chilling warning as she fights his scheduled release
'I want him kept behind bars so he can never kill again, because mark my words, he will,' she told Woman's Day.
'Let's keep child killers out of our community and behind bars where they belong. In the case of child killers, there should be no question,' Ms Hamilton wrote alongside a petition calling for Guider to remain imprisoned.
The online petition has been signed by more than 104,000 people.
She has promised to be waiting at the prison gates for Guider if he is released.
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'I've heard he's cut his hair and shaved his beard so he won't be recognised. But I'll never forget his face. I want to look him in the eye and let him know I'm not that scared little girl now,' she said.
'I'm a mother and I'm fighting for the safety of children. He haunted me and now I'm going to haunt him.'
Ms Hamilton said releasing Guider would put the lives of little girls at risk.
'I'll do anything I can to keep him locked up. He's got to be stopped, he has to stay behind bars,' she told 60 Minutes.
Guider (pictured) preyed upon single mothers, offering to babysit with the intent of abusing their children
Ms Hamilton was six-years-old when she first met Guider, a self-taught expert in Aboriginal rock art who also worked as a gardener.
Guider preyed upon single mothers, offering to babysit with the intent of abusing their children.
He would then drug, sexually abuse and photograph the children he was supposed to be looking after.
Ms Hamilton said Guider's mood changed the second her mother left her and a friend at their home in Manly on Sydney's northern beaches.
'That's when dirty magazines were on the coffee table all of a sudden. He was setting the mood,' she said.
'He... would just get us naked and... he'd get us to touch each other and stuff.'
Chantelle Hamilton (pictured), 30, is fighting against Michael Geider's scheduled release from prison
Ms Hamilton said she told her mother about Guider's behaviour and he was later arrested.
Police searched Guider's home and found thousands of photos showing the abuse of nine girls and two boys.
Guider was arrested and charged with Samantha's murder in February 2001, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter under the weight of damning evidence including a confession to his brother Tim, a jailed armed robber.
The NSW Attorney-General, Mark Speakman, has moved to stop Guider's release by launching court action that would keep the serial child sex offender behind bars for another year.
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.
Guider played a 'game' called statues with some victims, during which he ordered them to stand still while he exposed himself and touched their genitals; he took thousands of images of the children he violated while they were drugged.
The long-haired gardener claimed some of the mothers knew what he was doing and told a psychologist at least one of them - not Sam's or Chantelle's mother - did not mind.
'She was bad,' Guider said of the mother.
This is the block of flats in Imperial Avenue, Bondi, where Sam Knight lived with her mother Tess in 1986
'I was screwing her two kids and she asked me to do it to her after I'd been doing it to them.'
Guider first molested Sam when she was living with her mother Tess at Manly in 1984 and 1985.
He snatched Sam from near her home in Imperial Avenue, Bondi, after school on August 19, 1986.
The honey-blonde, green-eyed girl had been seen that afternoon walking the streets in her uniform. Within days, Sydney was plastered with 'Find our Sam' posters describing the young girl as intelligent, outgoing and well-spoken.
Guider later claimed he had drugged Sam with the sleeping pill Normison and she died of an overdose on his lounge while he went out to the shops.
He told investigators he buried Sam in Cooper Park at nearby Bellevue Hill, but dug up her body 18 months later when he saw workmen near her grave.
Guider said he then put Sam's remains in a dumpster containing landfill at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron at Kirribilli on the other side of the harbour.
After Guider pleaded guilty to manslaughter, Sam's mother said: 'Guider is the only person who knows where Sam is.'
'There is no reason why he can't tell us where Sam is. I think I would like to know a little bit more about what happened.'
Paedophile Michael Guider (pictured) 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
Sam's father, Peter O'Meagher, whose marriage to Tess had been short, said: 'We've got to bury her. We really just want that.'
Guider was sentenced in August 2002 to 17 years' prison with a non-parole period of 12 years for manslaughter.
He 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.
Guider's case was mentioned in the Supreme Court on Tuesday and returns to court in May. Samantha Terese Knight would be 41 if still alive.
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