
The ringleader of a group that bashed a convicted murderer in jail was motivated by what he had heard about the man's crime, a Hunter court has been told.
Richard Exton - one of three men charged with attacking Carly McBride's murderer Sayle Kenneth Newson in the maximum security wing of Cessnock Correctional Centre in June 2021 - was sentenced to a 15-month prison term when he faced Cessnock Local Court on Wednesday.