About Martin Bryant
Martin John Bryant is an Australian mass murderer who shot and killed 35 people and injured 23 others in the Port Arthur massacre on 28 and 29 April 1996. He is currently serving 35 life sentences, and 1,652 years without the possibility of parole, at Risdon Prison in Hobart, Tasmania. According to Bryant, he thought the plan for the massacre might have first occurred to him four to twelve weeks before the event. In March 2012, Sydney artist Rodney Pople controversially won the AU$35,000 Glover Prize for his landscape painting depicting Port Arthur with Bryant in the foreground holding a firearm. I realised this guy didn't really have any friends." With both Harvey and his father dead, Bryant became increasingly lonely. Bryant ultimately became suicidal after deciding he had "had enough," stating, "I just felt more people were against me.
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