Brian William Robinson was the second last person executed in Western Australia at Fremantle Prison, on 24 January 1964.

[1] On 9 February 1963 Robinson shot and killed police constable Noel Isles, who had attended a domestic incident.

Robinson fled to the Gnangara Pine Plantation, causing one of the biggest manhunts in Western Australia's history.

[1][2] Isles, though going off duty at the time, had responded to a phone call to the Belmont police station about a domestic argument.

Robinson then flagged down a passing taxi and forced the driver to take him to the Gnangara Pine Plantation, where the car was abandoned after becoming bogged.