Killer Jason John Nixon threw urine at prison guard

ONE of Queensland's most notorious killers and escapees is back in court for throwing urine at a prison guard.

ONE of Queensland's most notorious killers and prison escapees - known for his daring 1997 prison break with "Postcard Bandit" Brenden Abbott - can now add urine thrower to a list of criminal atrocities.

Jason John Nixon, 42, appeared in the Brisbane District Court under heavy guard and dressed in full body restraints for assaults on prison guards at Wacol's Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre in June last year.

Prosecutor Michael Lehane said Nixon attacked one guard with a razor blade and gouged a 20cm wound in his left arm moments after being released from his cell in the centre's Maximum Security Unit on June 13.

Mr Lehane said the second attack occurred when Nixon threw two cups of his own urine through a slot in his locked prison door and on to a guard and nurse trying to deliver him medication on June 15,

Nixon pleaded guilty to one count each of unlawful wounding and serious assault.

Nixon, who received a three-and-a-half year prison term for the attacks, smiled and waved to family and friends in the back of the court.

At one point NIxon stood in the dock of Court 10, smiled broadly and raised his shackled hands aloft with both thumbs raised and yelled to his supporters: "Take care, huh? Thanks for coming."

Nixon - known in jail as "Waxy" because of his love of surfing - has only ever had 18 weeks of freedom in his adult life and will most likely die in prison after being convicted of two vicious prison murders.

In July 1994, Nixon gained local infamy when he pleaded guilty to his role in the savage and bloody murder of inmate Bart Vosmaer.

Vosmaer, 29, died of injuries received when seven fellow inmates - who dubbed themselves "The Magnificent Seven" - beat him with bars and dropped free weights on his body and head in the gym of the Sir David Longland prison on March 24, 1993.

But, Nixon gained national notoriety in November 1997 when he and four other inmates broke out of the SDL prison - Queensland's then premier maximum security jail.

His fellow escapees included notorious multiple escapee and so-called "Postcard Bandit" Brenden A Abbott, murderers Oliver Alincic and Andrew John Jeffrey. and rapist Peter Thomas Stirling.

Nixon enjoyed 15 days of freedom before being recaptured, but not before he fired a shotgun during a struggle with two detectives who captured him at a luxury Sunshine Coast resort.

He received a further 20-year jail term for the escape, attempting to murder one detective and seriously assaulting the other.

In October 2004, Nixon received an indefinite jail term for slaying double murderer Mark Day a year earlier.

It took less than nine minutes for Nixon to kill Day in the exercise yard of Queensland's most secure cell block - the SDL's MSU.

Nixon and Day had been sunbaking when, without warning Nixon, using a sock filled with several soap bars, punched, kicked and stomped on his head and neck.

Nixon then stood on Day's neck for six minutes to ensure he was dead.

Then Brisbane Supreme Court judge John Helman described Nixon's violent past as exceptionally brutal.

"Your record of two (prison) murders, an attempted murder (of a police officer) and (numerous) offences of violence speaks for itself," Justice Helman said in 2004.

Judge Terry Martin, in sentencing Nixon, said: "You have an appalling criminal history ... (and) are a continuous danger to others."

Nixon will not be eligible to have his indefinite sentence reviewed before October 2034.