What is Martin Bryant?
{{Infobox criminal | name = Martin Bryant | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|5|7|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Hobart]], [[Tasmania]], [[Australia]] | death_date = | death_place = | alias = | charge = | conviction = [[Murder]] (35 counts)<br /> Attempted murder (20 counts)<br /> [[Assault|Inflicting grievous bodily]] harm (3 counts)<br /> [[Assault|Inflicting wounds]] (8 counts)<br /> [[Arson]] (2 counts) | conviction_penalty = 35 [[Life imprisonment|life sentences]] plus 1,652 years. Never to be released | conviction_status = [[Incarcerated]] | occupation = | spouse = | parents = | children = }} '''Martin Bryant''' (born 7 May 1967) is an Australian [[criminal]] who killed 35 people in Tasmania in 1996, in the [[Port Arthur massacre]]. He is now in [[prison]] for the most murders in Australian recorded history.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oup.com.au/orc/extra_pages/higher_education/hirst__and__patching/martin_bryant |title=Martin Bryant: Wild in the Eyes |accessdate=2008-12-06 |format= |work=Oxford University Press |archive-date=2008-09-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080910030322/http://www.oup.com.au/orc/extra_pages/higher_education/hirst__and__patching/martin_bryant |url-status=dead }}</ref> Bryant has been given a sentence of life in jail for each of the 35 murders. He is never to be released. He is held in solitary confinement (by himself) in [[Hobart]]'s Risdon Prison.<ref name=abc>{{cite web |url= http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s10603.htm|title=Managing Martin: The Jailing of Martin Bryant |accessdate=2008-12-06 |format= |work=ABC Radio National - Background Briefing, 16 March 1997 }}</ref> Martin Bryant is believed to have an [[Intelligence quotient|IQ]] (thinking level) of an 11-year-old.<ref name=abc/> Guards and doctors report that his only interest seems to be himself.<ref name=abc/> He has tried to kill himself several times in prison.<ref name=abc/> ==References== {{reflis