Monster who murdered his newborn daughter and sued because he wasn’t given halal food behind bars now demands $20,000 compensation – because he didn’t have a TOASTER in jail
- Baby killer seeking payout from Queensland Department of Corrective Services
- Raymond Ali claims he was denied access to his own toaster while in prison
- Claimed he was fed non-Halal food including pork meals during a stint in hospital
- Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal gave him more time to respond
- He received a life sentenced but was released on parole and deported in 2017
A baby killer who spent almost two decades behind bars for the shocking murder of his newborn daughter is seeking compensation because he was denied access to his own toaster while in prison.
Raymond Ali is demanding a $20,000 payout from the Queensland Department of Corrective Services because he had no choice but to miss meals or use a communal grill which was used by other Woodford Correctional Centre inmates to cook ham.
The former Halal butcher’s complaint to the Anti-Discrimination Commission of direct and indirect discrimination was referred to the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT).
The Department of Corrective Services sought to strike out Ali’s latest complaint after he failed to comply with orders requiring him to provide further details in a way which it claimed ‘unnecessarily disadvantaged the State of Queensland’.
Raymond Ali (pictured) spent almost two decades behind bars for the brutal murder of his newborn daughter just minutes after she was born in 1998
QCAT refused that application last month and gave Ali another opportunity to respond.
‘Mr Ali did not act deliberately in his non-compliance, a fair trial of this complaint is still possible despite the non-compliance, striking out the complaint at this stage would be a drastic step, and if the complaint were to be struck out, the tribunal would not be offering an accessible hearing of the complaint in a fair and just manner as it is obliged to do,’ the QCAT judgement published online states.
Ali was given a life sentence in 2000 for bashing his newborn daughter to death just minutes after she was born two years prior.
He then chopped her body in half and burying it at his Logan Village home.
When her body was found by police in a grave it was found her right leg had been severed, she had been cut in half at the abdomen and her reproductive organs had been removed.
The baby’s mother, Amanda Blackwell, 22, was found guilty of manslaughter.
Ali was released on parole and deported in 2017.
Raymond Ali is seeking compensation, claiming he was forced to miss meals or use a communal grill used by other Woodford Correctional Centre (pictured) inmates to cook ham
Ali claimed he was denied to use of a toaster during his time at Woodford Correctional Centre, north of Brisbane.
This is despite many prisoners had personal sandwich-makers and an official visitor advising the prison general manager it was Ali’s basic right to have one because of his religious beliefs.
Ali also claimed he was fed non-Halal food including pork which is forbidden by his religion during a two week stay at Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra Hospital in 2016.
Meals included roast pork sandwiches, pea and ham soup and a cheese and ham croissant.
In an email to the Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland, Ali says that after he returned to Woodford Correctional Centre from hospital, he requested his own toaster because there was only one industrial griller and ‘most of the inmates cooked ham on it’.
Raymond Ali (pictured) was released on parole and deported in 2017. He’s now seeking $20,000 compensation from the Queensland Department of Corrective Services
His request was denied and was told he could wash the griller before using it.
‘It was impossible for me to wash the griller while 50 other inmates waited in the queue. This would have created a lot of violence in the unit,’ Ali stated in the email.
A Corrective Services Department spokeswoman would not comment, telling The Australian the matter was before courts and Ali had a legal right to privacy.
There was public outrage in 2013 when the QCAT awarded Ali $3000 compensation for being fed a vegetarian diet instead of halal food for four months in Maryborough Prison.
Ali complained that he had been fed a vegetarian diet for four months while being held in prison instead of halal food which needs to be blessed, slaughtered, cooked and stored in accordance with strict rules.
Ali claimed he was fed non-Halal food including pork which is forbidden by his religion during a stay at Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra Hospital (pictured) in 2016