Bassam Hamzy: Brothers 4 Life founder's life of crime - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

This is the prick that radicalises they other prisoners.
Bassam Hamzy: Brothers 4 Life founder's life of crime

Australia's first and only extreme high-risk inmate, Bassam Hamzy, grew up on the streets of Kings Cross and was a drug addict for most of his teenage years.
In 1999, aged 19, Hamzy shot dead a teenager on a Sydney nightclub strip and was jailed for 21 years for murder.
Hamzy started the Brothers 4 Life gang while in jail, after he converted to radical Islam.
When authorities discovered he had built himself a strong gang of converts, they moved Hamzy to Lithgow jail and into segregation.
It was there, in 2008, that the convicted killer gained notoriety when he was caught using a smuggled mobile phone to run a violent drug network from his prison cell, making up to 450 phone calls a day.
Hamzy used the phone to organise two kidnappings, torture, and a drive-by shooting.
Police said they began intercepting calls on the phone with the help of prison officers, and released a surveillance video of the mobile phone being passed between other inmates under Hamzy's cell door using dental floss.
Hamzy was sent back to Goulburn's Supermax prison, thrown into solitary confinement, and designated Australia's first and only extreme high-risk restricted inmate.
He was sentenced to a maximum 22 years, starting in December 2019, and will be eligible for parole in June 2035.