19 Jan 2011

Facebook page on Tasmanian murderer shut down

8:18 pm on 19 January 2011

A page set up on social networking site Facebook in the name of the Tasmanian mass murderer Martin Bryant has been shut down.

The state government requested the page be removed out of respect for the victims of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre and their families.

Prison authorities say the page was not created by Bryant, who is serving 35 life sentences in a Hobart prison, the ABC reports.