Crime by Jake McCallum and Nick Hansen 13th Jan 2021 9:11 AM Premium Content
A prison officer taken hostage and tortured by a teenage terrorist was allegedly stabbed 40 times and had chemicals poured over his body as he screamed for help. Dreadful details of the five-hour torture session inside the Mid-North Coast Correctional Centre at Kempsey on December 19 can now be revealed by NewsLocal, including that a second inmate was somehow able to gain access to the room and allegedly join in the attack. The 20-year-old terrorist - serving 35 years for the Islamic State-inspired murder of a Queanbeyan service station attendant in 2017 - allegedly set upon the guard in an office in the A-pod wing of the jail and barricaded the door.