Jailer hanged but saved
NZPA Sydney Inmates attacked a senior prison officer at Sydney’s Long Bay jail yesterday, hanging him from a shower with a rope made from sheets.
“Another 20 seconds and he would have been gone,” said a doctor called to the scene.
The police said that fellow warders found the Prison Officer’s Association chairman, Mr Michael Behan, hanging from the shower recess. They cut him down. Mr Behan was taken to Prince Henry Hospital, where a spokesman said he was in a stable condition.
An association spokesman, Mr Tod Rothwell, believed that it was a revenge attack in retaliation for a decision by warders to press for the death penalty, the reopening of a maximum security block, and for prison officers to be allowed to carry batons.
“Michael heard a noise in 13 wing from the showers. He walked in and was hit from behind. They hanged him with a rope made from sheets,” said Mr Rothwell.
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