Two of Australia’s most notorious murderers clash in jail fight as prison staff are forced to intervene
- Prison staff had to break up jail fight between Codey Herrmann and Jaymes Todd
- Pair reportedly had a heated verbal exchange before incident became physical
- Herrmann, 21, was jailed for 36 years for the rape and murder of Aiia Maasarwe
- Todd was given life sentence for rape and murder of comedian Eurydice Dixon
Two of Australia’s most notorious murderers had to be separated by prison staff after fighting each other behind bars.
Codey Herrmann, who raped and murdered Israeli exchange student Aiia Maasarwe in January of this year, reportedly clashed with comedian Eurydice Dixon’s killer Jaymes Todd in their Melbourne jail.
Herrmann, 21, is said to have initiated the altercation – which turned physical following a heated verbal exchange between the two convicted murderers.
Prison staff have been forced to break up a jail fight between two of Australia’s most notorious murderers – Codey Herrmann (pictured left) and Jaymes Todd
Herrmann, 21, is said to have initiated the altercation with Todd (pictured right) – which turned physical following a heated verbal exchange between the two convicted murderers
Herrmann was jailed for 36 years in October for the rape and murder of Israeli exchange student Aiia Maasarwe (pictured)
Todd, 20, was given a life sentence with a non-parole period of 35 years in September for the murder of Melbourne comedian Eurydice Dixon (pictured) in June 2018
Neither inmate was injured in the incident at Melbourne Assessment Prison, The Sunday Herald Sun reported.
It is not clear exactly what caused the altercation.
Herrmann was jailed for 36 years in October after bashing Ms Maasarwe over the head with a metal pole as she walked home from a tram stop in Bundoora, northern Melbourne on January 16.
He dragged the 21-year-old into bushes before raping her, bashing her again with the pole and then setting her on fire in a clumsy attempt to destroy his DNA.
Todd, 20, was given a life sentence with a non-parole period of 35 years in September for the rape murder of Ms Dixon in June 2018.
He stalked Ms Dixon, 22, for more than an hour as she walked through Melbourne’s Princes Park after a comedy gig on June 12 last year.
Ms Dixon walked for about 4.5km through the city and past the University of Melbourne to Princes Park, making her way across two soccer pitches, before she was attacked by Todd.
Neither inmate was reportedly injured in the incident at Melbourne Assessment Prison (Herrmann pictured right, Todd pictured left)
It wasn’t until just before 3am that her body was discovered by a passer-by.
Todd handed himself into police after his photograph was shown on television as police tried desperately to find the culprit.
The fight follows Adrian Bayley and Steven Hunter punching on at the maximum security Barwon Prison near Geelong, south-west of Melbourne, on May 10.
Bayley raped and murdered Irish woman Ms Meagher, 29, when she was walking home from a pub in Brunswick, an inner suburb of Melbourne, in September 2012.
Hunter stabbed to death law student Sarah Cafferky, 22, at his Bacchus Marsh unit in Melbourne before dumping her body in a wheelie bin in 2012.