An inmate who has spent most of his life caged in an isolation unit within some of Australia’s toughest prisons has carried out an interview with an ex-convict via Zoom while still in jail.
Dressed in prison greens, Daniel Hope had only recently been released from solitary confinement inside Victoria’s notorious Port Phillip Prison when he appeared in a near nine-minute interview with ex-bash artist David Obeda, who runs a YouTube channel called The Felon Show.
Obeda founded the notorious jailhouse gang G-Fam in Melbourne before being deported by federal authorities back to New Zealand for his crimes.
Daniel Hope, 26, has spent the past 10 years behind bars after a series of attacks on his jailers
David Obeda founded the notorious jailhouse gang G-Fam in Melbourne and now runs a successful YouTube channel speaking to criminals
It was members of G-Fam that stabbed and almost killed Melbourne gangster Tony Mokbel inside Barwon Prison in 2019.
It is understood Hope was able to carry out the jailhouse interview with Obeda via tablets provided to inmates after the Covid-19 pandemic brought in-person visits to a halt.
Daily Mail Australia has been told Victorian prisons have been flooded with Wifi signals over the past two years, with tablets provided to prisoners in an effort to keep the peace and allow inmates to maintain contact with loved ones.
Hope, 26, has been caged for the past 10 years and has another five to serve after initially being placed into juvenile detention for what was supposed to be a maximum of 16 months.
It was May 18, 2012 when Hope was first locked-up and since that day he has spent most of his time caged in isolation cells due to his targeted violence against prison staff.
‘When I was 17, most kids were in school trying to get their first kiss. I was at f**king adult prison,’ he told Obeda from his prison cell.
Hope had been moved to adult jail after he bashed staff at Parkville Youth Justice Centre, which houses children aged between 15-17 years of age.
Hope’s ‘chin-check’ on a Parkville guard earned him an additional two-and-a-half year stay in an adult jail.
Daniel Hope copped an additional nine months in jail after he fought prison guards to break into an isolation cell housing notorious criminal Christopher ‘Badness’ Binse
Port Phillip Prison (pictured) is a maximum security prison in Melbourne’s west
Daniel Hope carried out an interview from his prison cell just five weeks after being let out of an isolation unit
Housed in isolation alongside the likes of Obeda, things went from bad to worse for the young offender.
Due for release in December 2015, Hope, aged just 20, went on a bloody rampage two months before his release date while caged within Barwon Prison, which also houses some of the nation’s most violent criminals.
‘The screws were just racist c**ts. Just bad, racist f**king scumbags,’ Hope claimed.
When his request to be moved back into isolation was rejected by prison management, Hope said he decided ‘to go hard on the screws’.
‘Bashed the whole unit and got 10 years for it,’ Hope said.
Stuck again in isolation, Hope had yet another nine months added to his sentence just a couple of years later when he attacked the guards while trying to bash Christopher Dean Binse – aka ‘Badness’.
Binse is one of Australia’s most infamous criminals, who like Hope has spent most of his life behind bars.
Hope said he was compelled to bash Binse, who claims to have reformed in recent years, because of his persistent ratting on other inmates.
‘Apparently he’s an alleged underworld figure, biggest dog going around, lagging everyone,’ Hope said.
Daniel Hope warns kids that criminal behaviour starts small before becoming something much larger
The violent incidents saw Hope locked in an isolation unit up until late last year, when he was finally allowed to return to general population.
Hope said he had spent up to the past eight years locked in isolation, where inmates are often allowed just one-hour a day of exercise in a caged run-off area.
Despite his violent past, Hope claimed he his now done with his life of violence and wasting his life behind bars.
At the time of his interview with Obeda, he had spent just five weeks back in general population.
‘I’m done. I’m coming home. I’m out of this mother f**ker in a couple of years. That’s it, I’m done. I’ve done my time. I’ve got nothing to prove. I know who the f**k I am. I know what I’ve done, so I’ve got nothing to prove and I’m kicking back now,’ he said.
Hope warned young Australians planning to head down a similar path to his to think long and hard about it.
‘Listen, if you wanna run amok just be aware of the consequences. You know it starts off small and gets bigger and bigger before you know it it’s out of control and it’s too late to turn around,’ Hope said.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted G4S – the private operator that runs Port Phillip Prison – for comment.
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