The same guard witnessed three men murder an alleged dog while working at Silverwater Jail. I was in the MRRC (Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre) when they killed Johnny Tram. He was a DOG and they killed him over the John Newman assassination. They stabbed him 27 times, with industrial scissors, in front of everybody. He was in there, doing his work, and these three Asian guys just walked up to him and started stabbing. The officer grabbed him, but the attackers didn t stop. It was brutal. He died on the spot. As soon as I heard about it, I rushed in to help. I saw the last one go through and watched Tram die. I believe we had some information on the Newman murder and that s what got him killed. They d put a hit out on him and got him. He was sewing linen sheets at the time. It was the worst thing I have ever seen in all my years working in jails. Former prisoner Abo Henry said a paedophile was brutally bashed while in Long Bay. There was a bloke who did 16 years for raping and killing a kid, Henry said. He had a couple of weeks to go. He said he wanted to get out from the main jail and finish his time in protection. He was warned against it, but he thought he d be sweet after 16 years. He thought that no one would know him. Anyway,Oakley Minutes, they found him in the weights room with his head caved in. A mate of Neddy Smith s was the main suspect, but he beat the charge. Four sex offenders and one dog were murdered in Australian prisons between 1980 1998. The general prison population f***ing hated the protections, said an inmate. If they got hold of them, they d kill them. Now and then there would be a little bit of a slip-up and they would grab one. Say, one of them had been on protection for a while and they thought the circumstances had sorted themselves out. In that period, Long Bay recorded the second highest number of prison homicides in Australia with five men killed while in custody.