Police look at Milat link to shooting
NSW Police are re-examining the shooting of a Sydney taxi driver in 1962 amid fresh allegations that serial killer Ivan Milat may have been responsible.
The police review was announced after a joint investigation by _The West Australian _ and Channel 7's Sunday Night un- covered evidence suggesting that a teenage Milat shot and paralysed Sydney taxi driver Neville Knight on March 6, 1962.
Milat was just 17 at the time and got away with the crime because Alan Dillon was arrested and jailed for the attack.
The claims were aired on Sunday Night and were backed by an interview with Milat's brother Boris, in which he said Milat confessed to him one day after the shooting.
"We can confirm police are reviewing the information presenting in the TV program," a police spokeswoman said.
The discovery, which has been accepted by the officers who caught Milat, significantly rewrites what was previously known about the serial killer, revealing a new victim and a path of brutal criminality that began long before anyone suspected.
Dillon unwittingly took the fall for the shooting - which featured signature characteristics of Milat's backpacker murders - because he thought his brother Brian had committed the crime.
Until Dillon was contacted by _The West Australian _, he had no idea that his brother was not responsible and that he had unwittingly done time for Milat's first violent crime.
He said in light of the new evidence, he now hoped to get his conviction overturned.
