Prison assault charge
A prisoner has been charged with a serious broomstick assault on another inmate at the Christchurch Men’s Prison three weeks ago.
Jamie Bryce Brown, a 23-year-old labourer, appeared by video-link from the prison before Judge Brian Callaghan at the Christchurch District Court today.
Defence counsel Phillip Allan asked for a remand for three weeks without plea.
Judge Callaghan remanded Brown in custody to March 3 on the charge of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. He will again appear by video-link on that day.
Earlier charges including assaulting a woman, and breaches of a protection order, for which Brown was being held in custody, were remanded to the same day.
The charge lists the victim of the January 21 assault at the prison as Michael Scott Holdem.
The charge does not list the type of weapon but it is believed that Holdem was beaten with a broomstick, causing serious injuries that put him in Christchurch Hospital for at least five days.
Holdem was jailed for eight years in 1999 for living off the prostitution earnings of a 14-yrear-old, having sex with her, and administering morphine.
In 2009, three years were added to the jail term for trying to get his mother to smuggle drugs to him in prison. In April, he admitted unlawful possession of a shotgun.
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