Prisoner On Inmate Attack Charge
Illawarra Mercury
Friday July 11, 2003
A 27-YEAR-OLD prisoner accused of setting a fellow inmate on fire will face a Perth court today charged with attempted murder.
Former Rebels bikie Gavin John McMaster, 37, remains in a critical condition after he was doused in a flammable liquid and set on fire at Casuarina Prison on June 26. The former bikie had just begun an eight-year sentence for shooting two members of the rival Coffin Cheaters gang.
His alleged attacker, Michael Jason Newton will appear in Perth Magistrates Court tomorrow.
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