Gangland matriarch Judy Moran suing over alleged prison guard attacks which caused ‘permanent pain’
GANGLAND matriarch Judy Moran is suing the Victorian Government for damages, alleging she has been left in “permanent pain” following two assaults by prison staff.
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GANGLAND matriarch Judy Moran is suing the Victorian Government for damages, alleging she has been left in “permanent pain” following two assaults by prison staff.
The 71-year-old, sentenced in 2011 to 26 years in jail for the murder of Des “Tuppence” Moran, claims she is the victim of two violent attacks by staff at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in Deer Park.
The Herald Sun has seen court papers issued by legal adviser George Defteros, which detail the two alleged attacks.
Moran claims the first attack took place on October 24, 2009, while she was awaiting trial.
She says two officers from the jail’s riot squad “unlawfully assaulted” her.
“The officers placed the plaintiff into handcuffs and dragged her into a caged room with walls encased with wire,” the papers say.
“They threw the defendant into the room causing her to hit the wall.”
The papers detail how Moran allegedly struck the wall with the right side of her body, causing injuries to her face and a broken right hip.
Moran says while she was prone on the floor the officers kicked her repeatedly over four hours.
As a result, Moran claims she suffered several injuries including a skull fracture, severe bruising and “ongoing disfigurement” of the right side of her face.
Moran, who uses a wheelchair to move around the jail, also claims she suffered damage to her left knee as well as anxiety, depression and other psychological injury.
In the second assault, alleged to have taken place at the prison in June 2011, Moran claims corrections officers placed her in handcuffs and “dragged her 40m to 50m down a pathway” while striking her with their elbows.
As a result, she says she suffered broken ribs, ongoing pain and disfigurement.
In a separate matter, Moran is still appealing to the Department of Justice to be moved back to her apartment-style unit at the women’s prison which she shared with three other inmates.
In it, they were able to cook for themselves and they had their own sitting room.
Moran was moved to a single cell from the unit two months ago after a reported fight between two of her fellow prisoners.
The Herald Sun has learned that Moran was told she wasn’t allowed back to the unit because she “can’t look after herself”.
A source told the Herald Sun on Wednesday: “Judy is really struggling.”