DAVID WHITE/STUFF Justice Mark Woolford dismissed the judicial review. The court heard in August 2019, Bell was removed from his role in the prison’s new state-of-the-art kitchen, where he had been working towards an NCEA qualification. The court heard there was an allegation he was going to poison staff. Shortly after that incident a fellow prisoner called Crimestoppers, alleging Bell had plotted to take a female staff worker hostage in the prison laundry in order to escape. Bell was then reclassified from low-medium risk to a maximum security prisoner. However, he said Corrections had previously described him as “well-behaved” and he was not considered a violent prisoner.