Vic: Prisoner jailed for 16 years for watchhouse assault

AAP General News (Australia)
12-05-2000
Vic: Prisoner jailed for 16 years for watchhouse assault

The Melbourne Magistrates Court has jailed a prisoner for 16 years for stomping on
the head of another inmate in a crowded cell.

County Court judge GRAHAM ANDERSON ordered 27-year-old ALI ALI to serve a minimum
non-parole term of 13 years.

The court heard Mr ALI's victim suffered serious brain injuries as a result of the
attack which has left him partially paralysed.

The attack occurred in at 3.1 by 3.4 metre cell in which 10 other prisoners were being held.

Mr ANDERSON said although conditions in the cell were entirely inappropriate Mr ALI's
conduct could not be excused.

The judge said Mr ALI attacked 46-year-old MICHAEL TULLY, on April 29 last year despite
being warned by a prison officer to stop giving TULLY a hard time.

Mr TULLY is now confined to a wheelchair and has to be fed through a tube.

A jury found Mr ALI guilty of intentionally causing serious injury.

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