Deadline: The best way to avoid a beating in prison is to have a killer stepdad inside

Inmates landing in jail for the first time face a serious threat to life and limb. That is unless you have a prison guardian angel in the form of a notorious killer stepdad.

Christopher Wayne Hudson in his kickboxing days. Picture: Supplied

Mark Buttler and Andrew Rule with the latest scallywag scuttlebutt.

A prison guardian angel

New inmates to the prison system can find themselves a bit vulnerable.

Nasty hazards await novice jailbirds in a menacing world where being without networks is a potential threat to life and limb.

There are conflicting accounts about one young fellow’s start after he was remanded recently over some high-level alleged offending.

We have been told he’s the stepson of infamous CBD gunman Christopher Wayne Hudson, a man with plenty of pull behind bars.

Hells Angel Hudson, a former Fink, killed one man, wounded another and severely bashed two women in a drug-fuelled rampage which started in a King St strip club in 2007.

Christopher Wayne Hudson leaving St Vincents hospital under heavy police guard shortly after his arrest in July 2007. Picture Seven News

Emergency crews on the scene in King St on 18 Jun 2007 after Hudson’s shooting rampage.

Anyway, after a recent court appearance, it seems the stepson was twitchy about his first trip to the big house. His mother quickly took to social media to try to allay any fears about her boy’s circumstances.

Accompanied by The Game’s tune “Like Father Like Son” and with a photo of Hudson, she made it clear she expected her boy to be safe and sound.

“Run this story!!! His [he’s] with his stepdad Huddo has been locked up for 17 years. My son is more than fine,” mum wrote in a message which has been doing the rounds in Melbourne.

The mother was also indignant about any suggestion he was refused bail because she did not know what he was doing.

“Incident happened at ... 4.10am. My son contacts me at 4.20am.”

Glad we’ve cleared that up.

Fair to say that her mothering instincts are better than her punctuation.

Bling bros tackle the block

So who’s the pumped-up bling king photographed with cashed-up buyer Adrian Portelli at the latest Block auction this week?

Portelli, of course, is the “Lambo guy”, the one doing all the talking after splashing out north of $15m to snap up all five Block properties at Phillip Island. His big mate didn’t have to say much: he could just rattle his chains and rings and shiny things.

Blockheads of Deadline’s acquaintance assure us that the big fella is Nik Solomos, the very same excellent operator who owns the Derrimut Gym 24:7 franchise.

Nik Solomos with Adrian Portelli.

Derrimut Gym apparently has 28 gyms under its banner around the nation, which makes Nikolaos Solomos quite the entrepreneur. Portelli likewise, of course, with his fascinating business LMCT+, which runs competitions with massive cash and/or property prizes for lucky subscribers that we unsophisticated folk might see as online raffles.

The five schmicked-up Block properties Portelli bought at Phillip Island — effectively a resort — can apparently be won by a subscription ticket holder in coming weeks. Or else the winner can take $8m cash and leave the five houses to go around all over again. We almost typed “raffled all over again.”

Deadline is not good at arithmetic, but it seems clear that Lambo guy sells a hell of a lot of subscriptions, or else he’s able to subsidise the prizes he offers using other income.

The often-told Portelli fairytale is that he made hundreds of millions in California from designing apps with the help of an ingenious housemate. The Solomos fairytale is still being woven. He’s sinking a fair bit of surplus cash into diamonds, watches, etc.

Deadline has one bit of advice for Big Nik: he should avoid deep water, because if he falls in wearing all that heavyweight joolry, he’ll drown.

Taking the P15S

Police can be very sensitive about leaks, even more so when it’s someone relieving themselves on one of their cars.

A bloke from Lalor found that out the hard way after being busted while busting in Epping on Monday night.

Officers on a foot patrol of the area were alerted by security about someone urinating in broad daylight in a car park off Cooper St.

His sin was made all the worse by the fact that it was their car that was getting a good old spray.

A 27-year-old man has been handed a penalty notice for behaving in a riotous, indecent, offensive or insulting way.

Police spokesman Paul Hogan said that resulted in $790 being “slashed” from his bank account.

Very droll, Hoges!

Nothing good happens after 2am, cont.

Chugs rhymes with thugs and drugs but Jayme “Chugs” Sykes was just a friendly young bloke in the wrong place at the wrong time, according to concerned citizens of the vibrant regional city some wiseguys used to call Sleepy Hollow.

Chugs Sykes’ funeral in Geelong last Saturday drew 500 people who were deeply fond of the popular and well-known 20-year-old Corio barber, tragically killed in a 5.30am altercation in Little Malop St two weeks ago.

Forensic police on the scene in Lt Malop St. Picture: Mark Wilson

It seems that Chugs and others were up and about all night.

Mourners performed burnouts in Geelong streets in honour of their mate, who’d been dead on arrival at hospital after allegedly being stabbed by a Colac man, since charged with murder.

Why or even whether accused knife artist James Farquhar would do such a thing is for a judge and jury to determine. Those at Chugs’ funeral could throw no light on it. They heard only that their loved one had a very wide network of acquaintances and that he “had a bit of FOMO, fearing he was going to miss out if he wasn’t involved in whatever was going on.”

There’s a new angle of investigation for homicide detectives. FOMO.

Five hundred mourners farewelled Jayme “Chugs” Sykes.

A grave situation

There was one unusual participant in a sombre minute’s silence to mark Monday’s Remembrance Day in Frankston Magistrates’ Court.

A female defendant beamed in from the Dame Phyllis Frost Correctional Centre was appearing over a number of matters, among them damage at a local cemetery.

It was noted by observers that the woman had allegedly singled out the graves of military personnel for vandalism.

We’re told all of the damaged graves were marked with hard-to-miss veterans’ affairs signage. Why the accused was so anti-military remains a mystery.

Life and Crimes with Andrew Rule

Reservoir dogs no more

Barbz, Shadow and Baby the german shepherds are safe and sound after a cross-Melbourne dognapping last week.

Reservoir police recovered the abducted dogs from a house in Kingsbury three days after they were snatched from a home in Footscray on Sunday.

Early on Wednesday morning, officers from operation Trinity spotted an Audi being driven erratically on Dunne St in Kingsbury and tried to intercept it.

The Audi did not stop and was followed by a police chopper before stop sticks ended the trip in Lehmanns Rd, Wollert about 40 minutes later.

The alleged driver, a 25-year-old from Reservoir, allegedly dumped the vehicle but was arrested when a police dog put the slows on him soon after.

Investigators were then able to carry out a warrant on a Burbank Drive, Reservoir, home where Barbz, Shadow and Baby were recovered safely and returned to their owner.

A 36-year-old Reservoir woman was arrested and charged with handling stolen goods.

The 25-year-old man was charged with theft, conduct endangering life, drug possession and driving matters. It is not known how the German shepherd (and German-car) fancier responded to Const. K9 snapping at his heels.