Daniel Morcombe’s murderer Brett Peter Cowan is being treated in a Queensland hospital after an inmate at the Brisbane Correctional Centre threw boiling water at him this morning.
The Queensland Ambulance Service said Cowan was taken to hospital with burns to his head, chest and legs.
The incident happened just before 9:30am inside the prison complex at Wacol in Brisbane’s south-west.
Cowan was transported to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s hospital in a stable condition.
Queensland Corrective Services said another prisoner was being questioned over the jail attack.
In 2014, Cowan was sentenced to life in prison for killing 13-year-old Daniel in 2003.
Cowan abducted the teenager who was waiting for a bus on the Sunshine Coast.
Earlier this year, the High Court dismissed Cowan’s application to appeal against his conviction.
He had sought special leave to appeal on the grounds that he was unfairly targeted by a police sting.
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A carton of cigarettes and a slab of beer to the thrower :-)
Next time, add sugar.
He has been sentenced to life in prison. It's not the job or right of prisoners to torture him, no matter what he did. That's not right. I get the guy is an evil bastard, but that's not justification.
I know. It's so weird.
These people are the ones who complained about anonymous troll threats in facebook from a recent article and are now anonymously advocating and encouraging burning water being thrown in the face of someone who has gone through our judicial process and still see it as deserving and the best news they have read all day.
If similar comments to theirs were published on facebook for other matters, would they still agree with them?
I agree with you on this one.
No pity for him though
I know, the first ones to trigger over aboriginal deaths in custody I would guess. I really, really don't like this guy and feel for the parents, but torture by other prisoners is wrong.
I've been reading the barbaric comments on Facebook and I am disgusted.
There are dozens advocating rape with a red hot poker, rape till his bowels are perforated, murdering him by hanging, beatings, acid poured on his penis amongst many others.
If I was not in a Western country with a legal system I would swear these threats were made by on an ISIS terrorist page, they are so horrific and barbarous and totally at odds with everything the West stands for.