A convicted killer who is serving decades in prison for murdering a woman at Hoppers Crossing, has admitted to brutally bashing two guards at Barwon prison.
Sigaragh Baea, 29, appeared in the County Court of Victoria on Monday over an unproved attack on the male and female officers in February of last year.
The female guard was knocked out and suffered serious injuries including a broken leg, while her colleague received cuts and bruises.
Baea is serving a 22-year sentence for stabbing 48-year-old Prasad Somawansa to death at her Hoppers Crossing home in February 2016.
Ms Somawansa, the mother of one of Baea’s childhood friends, died after being stabbed 36 times in what a judge described as a “vicious, gruesome and cowardly attack”.
Ms Somawamsa was on the phone to her husband when the attack took place. The distressed man called a friend, who discovered her body when he went to check on her.
Six months after he was jailed, Baea’s sentence was extended following the violent bashing of a fellow inmate.
He was moved to a solitary cell after last year’s attack and is now shackled whenever he leaves his cell.
The case will return to court later this year.
Baea will be deported to his native Papua New Guinea when he completes his sentence.
