Australia’s worst mass murderer, Martin Bryant, is now so overweight he reportedly needs to sleep on three mattresses stacked on top of each other.
The 58-year-old also spends his time in Risdon Prison Complex boasting to inmates about a supposed long-distance romance with a woman he calls his ‘girlfriend’.
Byrant is serving 35 life sentences over the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania.
In new details obtained exclusively by the Daily Telegraph, it was revealed Bryant is considered ‘lower than zero’ on the food chain by his fellow inmates.
Former inmate Jackson, who was cell neighbours with Bryant, gave a bleak account of his condition behind bars, describing him as untidy, dirty and suffering from acne.
The mass murderer is reportedly now so large he sleeps on three 10cm thick mattresses stacked on top of each other in his tiny cell bed, which he rarely leaves.
Most bizarrely, Jackson revealed Bryant had a reputation for previously giving sexual favours, in return for chocolates and sweets.
‘He’s had a few sexual experiences in jail so someone will tease him and go “How about you swap me a head job for a Mars Bar” with such and such,’ he said.
Port Arthur killer Martin Bryant (pictured) is serving 35 life sentences in the prison
An inmate has claimed that Bryant has previously exchanged sexual favours for chocolate
Jackson recalled the moment he finally summoned the courage to ask Bryant about the Port Arthur massacre, saying the killer’s face immediately shifted.
He added that he wasn’t sure Bryant’s mother still visited him but that the killer would speak frequently about a woman he claimed to be in a relationship with.
The woman, said to own a horse property in Victoria, was one of 10 people approved by the jail service to have phone calls with Bryant.
Jackson said he wasn’t sure if the woman ever visited Bryant in jail but that he had once been shown a photo of her by the notorious killer.
Former prison guard Tony Burley told the Daily Telegraph he had caught the murderer fixating on himself and other guards with an intense stare.
He said this only added to his reputation as an odd and isolated figure.
‘In terms of the food chain, he’s lower than zero,’ Mr Burley said. ‘It’s not that people don’t like him, he just doesn’t exist.’
‘No one would know who he was, he’s not a concern to anybody. He’s not targeted, he’s nobody.’
Bryant is said to be massively overweight, needing three mattresses to sleep on
The Port Arthur massacre remains one of the darkest days in Australia’s history.
At the time, it was considered the world’s worst massacre, with 35 people killed and 23 injured by Martin Byrant, who is serving 35 life sentences and more than a thousand additional years’ jail without parole.
Bryant has never explained his actions but investigators have speculated the murders were sparked out of retribution for grievances. Others were collateral damage.
The shooting prompted significant gun reform under then-prime minister John Howard via the 1996 National Firearms Agreement.
The laws banned rapid-fire guns from civilian ownership except under certain, restricted licences.
It also tightened requirements for firearms licensing, registration and safe storage and established a government buyback of semi-automatic and pump-action rifles and shotguns.
