Adnan Darwiche, victim of prison stabbing last year, now accused of knifing inmate

DOUBLE murderer and infamous crime figure Adnan “Eddie” Darwiche allegedly tried to add to his bloody tally with a stabbing in Cessnock jail.

A typical cell inside maximum security jail facilities at Cessnock.

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DOUBLE murderer and infamous crime figure Adnan “Eddie” Darwiche allegedly tried to add to his bloody tally with a brutal stabbing in Cessnock jail.

Ironically, Darwiche was only recently moved to Cessnock from Goulburn Maximum Security after he was stabbed eight times by another inmate in September last year.

Now he is one of two prisoners accused of stabbing a 33-year-old man on Friday. The injured man was rushed to hospital with serious injuries.

Adnan Darwiche was shifted to Cessnock after being stabbed at another jail.

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He has been discharged and taken back to Cessnock’s maximum security prison.

The violent incident comes as prison sources said Darwiche was placed in Cessnock jail by the Serious Offenders Review Council following last year’s attack on his life. Some corrections staff were against the move amid fears Cessnock was not capable of managing him.

The infamous member of the Darwiche crime family has a history of belligerent and violent behaviour within the prison system since he was handed two life sentences in 2006.

Sources say he had been ­berating guards and other ­inmates at Cessnock in the past several months and had been placed in segregation on at least one occasion before Friday’s stabbing.

Adnan "Eddie" Darwiche.

While the motive for the stabbing was unknown, it is ­believed to be an attempt to maintain his reputation within the prison system.

A NSW Corrections ­Department spokesman said two “assailants” had been identified in Friday’s stabbing.

Darwiche was attacked by two Christian prisoners with links to the Assyrian Kings gang in a stabbing at Goulburn jail last year.

He was sentenced to life for the murders of Ziad Razzak and Melissa Nemra in 2006. He was also sentenced to 20 years for assaults with a firearm.

The killings were part of a long-running war between the Darwiche and Razzak families, which began when members of both families were involved in cannabis supply wars.