Yes, and the Australian media went out of its way to incentivize him to commit mass murder.
During the trial, he asked his lawyer, several times, “Did I break the record?”
A while back, I just simply typed in Bryant’s name in a Google search and came across an article about his background (not in Wikipedia) that discussed an incident in which he was about nine years old, he doused himself with lighter fluid (from his father’s supply) and set himself on fire with the father’s cigarette lighter.
He was very seriously burned (as one can imagine) and the incident garnered some local media attention since it involved a young boy doing this sort of very dangerous and bizarre thing. He apparently told reporters (and remember, this is Bryant as a young boy) that he thought it was great fun setting himself on fire and that he would like to try it again sometime.