James Ryan O'Neill (born Leigh Anthony Bridgart in 1947, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian convicted murderer, currently serving a life sentence in Tasmania for a murder he committed in February 1975.
Allegations have been made that O'Neill also murdered a number of other children in several Australian states from the mid 1960s whilst he was still a teenager through to the murder that he was imprisoned for in 1975. He is currently Tasmania's longest serving prisoner for a single offence.
He was the subject of a documentary The Fishermen which was broadcast on ABC TV in October 2006.
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