Vic; NSW locals say hermit is Mr X - abortion shooting suspect

AAP General News (Australia)
08-04-2001
Vic; NSW locals say hermit is Mr X - abortion shooting suspect

Residents of the small New South Wales town of Molong believe the man who has been
charged with killing an abortion clinic guard is a local hermit.

Locals have seen pictures of the man labelled Mister X after he refused to reveal his
name when arrested for shooting dead a security guard at a Melbourne abortion clinic last
month.

Former Molong mayor JOHN FARR has told the The Age that a hermit resembling the man
had lived in a bush camp nearby for a decade.

Mr FARR says the man had few adult friends, but had befriended several children.

He says the man was said to have become very angry about people who sold cigarettes to children.

The report follows news that Melbourne detectives have searched a makeshift bush camp
in near Molong.

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