Vicious moment ultra-violent gangster Bassam Hamzy is bashed by a convicted terrorist in a battle to claim the title of most feared inmate at notorious Supermax prison
- Prisoners Bassam Hamzy, 39, and Talal Alammedine, 25, were caught in a brawl
- Hamzy is the founder of notorious western Sydney crime gang 'Brothers for Life'
- Alameddine was given to 13 years in jail for proving gun used to kill Curtis Cheng
- Both men have been charged with affray. Their cases were adjourned until June
Shocking footage has emerged showing two of Australia's most notorious inmates brawling inside one of the country's toughest prisons.
Security cameras inside Goulburn's Supermax prison caught the vicious fight between Bassam Hamzy, 39, and Talal Alameddine, 25, in October last year.
Hamzy, a convicted killer, was pummeled multiple times by Alameddine throughout the altercation.
The fight was an apparent battle for power inside the prison.
The pair were seen having a 'heated discussion' while in the rear yard of the correctional centre before punches were thrown.
Bassam Hamzy (left), 39, was allegedly bashed by convicted terrorist Talal Alameddine (right), 25, in Goulburn's Supermax prison in October last year
As the founder of Sydney gang 'Brothers 4 Life', Hamzy has been the most feared prisoner for more than 10 years.
His time in the country's strictest prison has been littered with headline-making incidents.
In 2008 he masterminded a methylamphetamine ring from inside prison, delivering more than a kilogram of the drug to Melbourne under the guise of a truck business.
Running the business through a phone hidden in his cell, Hamzy made 19,523 calls in just a matter of weeks.
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That same year Hamzy used his smuggled phone to threaten a man who owed him $12,000.
Hamzy was originally jailed for the 1998 shooting murder of a teenager outside a Sydney nightclub and has been a menace since entering custody.
His earliest release date is June 14, 2035.
Alameddine was sentenced to a maximum 17 years behind bars in May last year.
He pleaded guilty to supplying the revolver used to murder police accountant Curtis Cheng in 2015 and recklessly possessing the same weapon in preparation for an act of terrorism.
Hamzy reportedly often socializes with terrorist Khaled Cheikho (pictured), who is spending 27 years in jail for his crimes
Revelations about the jailhouse bust-up came after Hamzy (pictured) - founder of Sydney gang 'Brothers 4 Life' - was unable to represent himself in the New South Wales District Court
Alameddine waved and blew kisses to supporters as he was led away from the NSW Supreme Court after being sentenced by Justice Peter Johnson.
Schoolboy Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammad, a 15-year old extremist supporter of ISIS, shot dead Mr Cheng outside Parramatta police headquarters on October 2, 2015.
Alameddine will be eligible for parole in August 2029.
Both men have now been charged with affray over the fight.
Their cases were adjourned until June.
The charges could see the men serve an additional 10 years behind bars on top their existing sentences.
Why they call the nation’s toughest jail the 'SuperMosque'?
Goulburn’s High Risk Management Correctional Centre - better known as Supermax - is a modern jail within an old one, sitting in a corner of the Goulburn prison complex.
The facility houses men who cannot be allowed to mix in the wider prison system let alone walk free in the community but is within sight of suburban homes and farms.
Most of the older Anglo and Aboriginal prisoners who were there years ago are long gone and those who remain are now vastly outnumbered by young jihadis with Middle Eastern ancestry.
Backpacker killer Ivan Milat once generated the most headlines from behind Supermax's bars, that dishonour now falls to prison menace Bassam Hamzy.
Members of the 2005 Pendennis terrorist plot, along with ISIS-inspired extremists are inmates.
Goulburn’s High Risk Management Correctional Centre - better known as Supermax - is a modern jail within an old one, sitting in a corner of the Goulburn prison complex
Inside one of the austere cells at the High Risk Management Correctional Centre at Goulburn, which is 197km south-west of Sydney. All inmates in 'Supermax' sleep just one to a cell
Some extremists who are locked up were from Christian backgrounds but have converted to Islam behind bars.
Historically, the Supermax population has included a mix of institutionally violent inmates, those with a high capacity to influence and persuade others to undertake illegal activities, and other notorious offenders.
In recent years, most of the inmates on Supermax have been Islamic terrorists, who generally do not mix with the high-profile non-Muslim murderers and other offenders.
The older Al-Qaeda supporters do not even mix with the younger adherents to Islamic State but they all face Mecca and pray five times a day.
A report into radicalisation in the NSW prison system by the Inspector of Custodial Services in May last year found that 75 per cent of the Supermax inmate population was Muslim.
Supermax was opened in September 2001 within the grounds of what was originally called Goulburn Gaol, a heritage-listed institution established in 1884.
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