The former cellmate of Salim Mehajer says he thinks the disgraced businessman is too polite and feminine for prison.
Alex Arnold, who shared a jail cell with Mr Mehajer, exposed how the former deputy mayor of Auburn in west Sydney would walk around half-naked in just a towel.
Mr Arnold spent four days with Mr Mehajer in Surry Hills Police Station and described the pair sharing back massages with one another.
Alex Arnold spent four days with Salim Mehajer (pictured) sharing a cell together at Surry Hills Police Station in Sydney
He is now on bail after being accused of a jewellery theft in Kings Cross last month.
The 40-year-old denies the offence and gave an interview with The Australian saying Mr Mehajer seemed ‘lonely but talkative’.
‘He was really, really lonely,’ Mr Arnold said. ‘He said he was going to neck himself if they didn’t move someone in.
‘I don’t know if it was a figure of speech but he had some serious depression.
‘He was lying around in just a towel with no underwear, like one of those Egyptians.’
Mr Arnold also revealed how Mehajer’s hygiene habits were lacking, and how the cell smelt of faeces and urine.
Mr Mehajer, who was arrested on January 23 is said to be lonely but talkative in his jail cell
‘He should have done what he could to clean it but he was sleeping around half-nude so I cleaned it with bedsheets and two towels,’ Mr Arnold told the paper.
The pair also talked about life before bars, buildings and property development.
Mr Arnold claimed Mehajer said if the $80 million western Sydney development he is planning did not go ahead then he went be left broke.
Alex Arnold said Salim Mehajer (pictured) would walk around half naked in a towel in his Surry Hill cell
Former cellmate of Salim Mehajer says he thinks the disgraced businessman is too polite and feminine for prison
Mr Mehajer, who was deputy mayor for Auburn in west Sydney, has denied deliberately staging a car crash
Mehajer was arrested on January 23 for allegedly staging a car crash and has been locked up without bail since.
Police claim Mehajer staged the crash in Lidcombe in October last year in order to avoid facing court over an alleged assault on a taxi driver.
His current home is a stark contrast to the sprawling four-storey Lidcome property and waterfront Vaucluse apartment he has previously called home.