Vic: Sixteen year sentence for brutal prison bashing

AAP General News (Australia)
12-05-2000
Vic: Sixteen year sentence for brutal prison bashing

A breakdown in the prison culture of silence has led to a prisoner being jailed for
16 years for a brutal attack on another inmate.

The attack, in a crowded holding cell beneath the Melbourne Magistrates Court, left
the victim brain damaged, paralysed and having to be fed through a tube.

The judge who sentenced ALI ALI, who stomped on the head of mentally ill 46-year-old
MICHAEL TULLY, said he regards the attack as one of the worst he had heard of.

County Court judge GRAHAM ANDERSON has ordered 28-year-old ALI, formerly of Keilor
Downs, to serve a minimum non-parole term of 13 years.

Judge ANDERSON said he believed a sentence close to the maximum of 20 years was justified
and appropriate.

The judge also said that out of the 10 other prisoners in the cell during the attack,
five prisoners identified ALI as the attacker.

He said in view of the generally prevailing prison culture their statements reflect
the horrific nature of the crime and the impression it left on ALI'S fellow prisoners.

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KEYWORD: ALI (MELBOURNE)

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