This article originally appeared on ABC News on 6 May 2022.
Link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-06/momena-shoma-kailee-mitz-jihad-stabbing-prison/101039600
Excerpt
A Canadian woman serving a sentence in a Melbourne jail has launched a lawsuit against the Victorian government over a 2020 attack by another inmate, alleging prison officials failed to supervise her attacker.
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Jeremy joined Robinson Gill in 2006 after graduating from Monash University with degrees in Law and Arts. He has a Masters of Law at Utrecht University in the Netherlands specialising in human rights and criminal justice. He is an Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury and the head of the firm’s personal injury law team.
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