Prison bashing victim Nelson Patea converts to Islam
Mr Dufty was beaten to death in the Gold Coast Hinterland in July 2015. Legal and police sources say Nelson now identifies with the Muslim faith and converted to Islam while in the state's largest jail. Mongols bikies are active inside the Woodford Correctional Centre alongside Muslim group Ummah United, corrections sources told the Bulletin. Many prisoners convert to Islam in order to secure protection from groups active within the jail. "There is a high rate of conversion," one legal source said. "For the younger, more vulnerable prisoners it is about protection, but some who have con...