HOBART - Mass murderer Martin Bryant showed no remorse and asked for a Pepsi after a judge yesterday sentenced him to life behind bars with no chance of parole.
The shooting of 35 people last April at Port Arthur, a picturesque tourist spot in Tasmania, was Australia's worst modern day massacre. It was the harshest possible punishment, but some distraught relatives of the dead left the Tasmanian Supreme Court calling for reinstatement of the death penalty, which Australia abolished in the 1960s.