12 Facts About Garry David

At the age of 11 Garry David began committing various offences including larceny, making threats and offences of dishonesty.

Garry David was admitted to psychiatric facilities on eight separate occasions between 1976 and 1984, and was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder.

In 1982 Garry David was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for the attempted murder of three people, during a robbery-gone-wrong at a pizza restaurant in Rye, Victoria.

The pizza shop owner and one of the responding police officers were severely wounded in the incident, while Garry David was wounded in the legs by police.

Whilst imprisoned, Garry David wrote many manuscripts, one titled Blueprint for Urban Warfare, which spoke of committing massacres upon his release from prison.

Garry David later claimed that he had been instructed to write his more graphic fantasies down as a form of therapy.

Garry David manifested a great deal of hostility to the police force and prison system, resorting to violence and self-mutilation whenever his requests or demands were not met.

In January 1990, Garry David was declared mentally ill by government health department officials.

In May 1990 the board found Garry David was not mentally ill and recommended he be discharged as an involuntary patient.

The government sought to keep Garry David imprisoned indefinitely by introducing the Community Protection Act 1990.

Garry David was an intelligent man, with significant literary, analytical and computer skills.

At the time of his death aged 38, Garry David was still a prisoner and had spent a total of 33 years in various institutions.