Incredible prison video of frenzied knife attack on notorious gang boss Bassam Hamzy emerges – as he’s ‘ambushed inside Supermax after a coded order sent via triple J app’

Incredible footage of a frenzied knife attack on crime boss Bassam Hamzy by another inmate shows the notorious gangster being savagely slashed in an orchestrated ambush inside Australia’s most secure prison.

Supermax prison CCTV video, obtained exclusively by the Daily Mail, shows prisoner Lofu Namulauulu giving Hamzy, the founder of the country’s most notorious gang, Brothers 4 Life, a friendly pat on the back.

Seconds later, after pulling out a jail made knife – or ‘shiv’ – from his prison shorts, Namulauulu allegedly launches into a vicious attack on Hamzy in a caged yard of the jail. 

Hamzy and Namulauulu were locked up in the High Risk Management Correctional Centre, aka Supermax, at the time – a jail in the Goulburn prison complex southwest of Sydney which houses mostly violent, troublesome and escape-risk inmates. 

In an extraordinary twist, it is alleged that the attack was orchestrated via a message sent to Namulauulu via a chat function on the triple J Unearthed app, which was received on a prison-issued iPad.

The video of the alleged attack began in the Supermax exercise yard with Hamzy, wearing handcuffs, casually strolling around, half-smiling. He then followed Namulauulu to a barred and bolted door in the corner of the yard, where a prison officer was standing behind.

After patting Hamzy’s back – who was talking to the guard while restrained through the bars via his handcuffs – 28-year-old Namulauulu turned away and reached into his prison shorts.

Namulauulu, who has links to Sydney’s Alameddine crime network, then turned back to Hamzy, allegedly raised his blade and began repeatedly stabbing the 46-year-old killer and drug importer.

Reportedly being paid and acting on coded messages sent into the prison by an underworld figure known as ‘AA’, Namulauulu then allegedly stabbed Hamzy 15 times in quick succession before the gang boss began fighting back.

Then, 34 seconds into the assault caught on the video, the prison officer freed Hamzy from his restraints.

The two inmates are seen momentarily boxing until Namulauulu allegedly lands a blow which fells the gangster to the ground.

Namulauulu then begins allegedly kicking Hamzy’s head, upon which three prison officers finally emerge through the grilled door and drag the attacker away. 

Namulauulu was behind bars charged over an alleged armed home invasion.  

Two officers then return to Hamzy lying face up on the ground, and he manages to roll himself over into the recovery position.

The extraordinary video was shared by SCN Worldstar. 

Corrective Services NSW confirmed that Hamzy sustained some head injuries as a result of the alleged attack on February 17, 2024.

A Corrective Services NSW spokeswoman said that ‘Corrections staff at the High Risk Management Correctional Centre in Goulburn immediately intervened following an assault between two inmates on Saturday, 17 February 2024.

‘One inmate suffered injuries to his head area and was assessed by medical staff. The inmate did not require hospitalisation and refused medical treatment by on-site staff.’

A CSNSW spokeswoman said that all inmate associations at Supermax were ‘subject to a rigorous vetting process, including screening and intelligence checks, and approval’ was reviewed on an ongoing basis.

It would seem that Bassam Hamzy, however, appears to be targeted due to the high profile he has earned as a prison agitator since his incarceration for murdering a teenager outside a nightclub in the late 1990s, amongst other crimes.

Just two months before the attack by Namulauulu, Hamzy was attacked with a shiv by serial violent inmate and convicted murderer Ricky McNamara in Supermax. 

McNamara had been transferred to Supermax from Long Bay after a 2022 beheading attack when he used two shivs on a convicted sex offender to try ‘to cut his head off’.

Despite the seemingly premeditated nature of that attack, Hamzy escaped largely unharmed. 

In 2018, again in an exercise yard at Supermax, Hamzy fought with Talal Alameddine, in a brawl linked to the turf wars outside jail between Brothers 4 Life and the Alameddine crime group. 

In that altercation, Hamzy received extensive wounds to his face from his younger opponent. 

The CSNSW spokeswoman said that prison staff were specially trained ‘to de-escalate inmate fights by first issuing verbal directions, while also calling for an emergency response’.

In incidents with weapons, prison officers took ‘into consideration the higher level of risk to their own safety before physically responding’.

Hamzy founded Brothers 4 Life in 2008 while in Lithgow prison where he was caught using a smuggled mobile phone to run his violent drug network. 

Prison bosses found him making up to 450 calls a day trying to organise crimes such as kidnappings and shootings, and he was sent to Supermax. 

Designated Australia’s first extreme high-risk restricted inmate, Hamzy has since tried to legally challenge his classification.

Hamzy claims his severely restricted prison life, which includes not being allowed to speak to his parents on the phone in Arabic, is cruel and illegal.

Hamzy is serving a combined maximum sentence of more than 40 years.