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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Blake Foden

'I'm cutting his throat': Former gang boss held fellow inmate hostage with makeshift blade

A notorious former gang boss complained of being "sick of this bullshit" as he held a makeshift blade to a fellow prisoner's throat during the first ever hostage situation at Canberra's jail.

Details of the incident, which lasted nearly two hours, were revealed in the ACT Supreme Court on Tuesday as Damien Glenn Featherstone, 34, was sentenced to an extra four years behind bars.

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