Risdon Prison staff's 'secret mission' to hide Port Arthur mass murderer Martin Bryant from world | Daily Mail Online
Prison staff have revealed the secret mission to hide mass murderer Martin Bryant from the world as he serves 35 life sentences for the horrific Port Arthur massacre.
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The now 53-year-old is described by prison officers as a 'huge man' who knocks back his hourly exercise and instead spends his days consuming two-minute noodles and chocolate, which he is known to exchange for sexual favours.
Bryant spends his days behind bars in a high-dependence, maximum-security cell made for inmates who require special care and routinely has to undergo medical treatment, including for cataracts in his eyes.
A rare new prison photo of a pudgy-faced Bryant shows how the obese killer earned the nickname 'Porky Pig' by inmates.
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Bryant is described by the prison officer as a 'huge man' who knocks back his hourly exercise and instead spends his days consuming two-minute noodles and chocolate, which he is known to exchange for sexual favours.
But the officer added despite his overweight appearance and propensity to sit at a table on the ground floor of the unit and stare at a chess board, he still has the ability to strike fear into prison guards.
Bryant, who was 28 when he opened fire at Port Arthur, has also been described as a shell of his former self by former prison supervisor Tony Burley, who spent more than 10 years keeping watch over the killer at Risdon Prison.
In an interview for The Daily Telegraph's
On Guard podcast in December last year, Mr Burley described Bryant as a 'big baby' who rarely speaks and is the laughing stock of the jail.
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Since being incarcerated Bryant has been diagnosed with intellectual and social handicaps as well as Asperger's syndrome. Psychiatrists found Bryant to have an IQ of 66, which is classified as extremely low.
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Professor Paul Mullen, a forensic psychiatrist who assessed Bryant after the horrific massacre, described him as 'dim, pathetic, angry' who felt the only way he could achieve anything 'was to take revenge on the world and kill the helpless and the innocent'.