Dylan Voller’s ‘kill list’: Explosive evidence presented to Royal Commission into youth justice in the Northern Territory

DYLAN Voller compiled a list of youth justice officers and fellow inmates he wanted to kill while being held at the Don Dale Detention Centre, including details of how he wanted to see them die

Notorious youth prisoner Dylan Voller allegedly wrote a list of six people he wanted to kill — and how to kill them — while he was in prison

DYLAN Voller compiled a list of youth justice officers and fellow inmates he wanted to kill while being held at the Don Dale Detention Centre, including details of how he wanted to see them die.

The list is among evidence presented to the Royal Commission into Child Protection and Detention ahead of hearings next week, where corrections staff are set to take the stand.

They are expected to paint a picture of Voller as one of the most difficult inmates they have ever had to deal with.

This image of Dylan Voller strapped to a restraint chair and wearing a spit hood in the Don Dale Detention Centre, which aired on the ABC’s Four Corners program, was among those that led to the Prime Minister ordering the current Royal Commission into youth justice in the Northern Territory. Picture: ABC

Among the documents already submitted to the inquiry is a note found in his cell at the Don Dale Detention Centre.

It lists the people he says he wants to kill and how he intends to kill them.

His targets include two youth justice officers and four fellow inmates.

Of one officer, he says he wants to “run him over”, while of another he says he wants to “slice his throat”.

Voller details his wish to kill a fellow inmate by dropping “a 50kg weight on his head”, and says he wants to stab another to death with a pencil.

Many Australians looked on in shock when Voller detailed his treatment at the hands of Northern Territory Corrections staff to the Royal Commission.

He gave evidence detailing allegations he had been deliberately deprived of food, left to freeze in his cell, and transported from Alice Springs to Tennant Creek in stifling conditions with no water.

“I was busting to go to the toilet, I think I had been asking for at least four or five hours and they had just been saying ‘no’ and I ended up having to defecate into a pillow case because they wouldn’t let me out to go to the toilet,” he said during his evidence.

It was the image of Voller strapped to a restraint chair and wearing a spit hood — a scene that was described as like something out of Guantánamo Bay — that prompted the Prime Minister to order a Royal Commission.

But the commission will be told the use of spit hoods on youth detainees was only introduced in 2012 after dozens of complaints from staff and health workers that Voller had spat at them.

On some occasions staff had complained that spit had gone into their mouths and eyes.

They complained to management on numerous occasions before the use of spit hoods was allowed.

Voller has been in and out of youth detention in the Northern Territory since he was just 11 years old.

One of the things the commission will consider is how much Voller was a creation of the institutions in which he was held.

Voller’s latest stint in detention was over an ice-fuelled crime binge in Alice Springs where he tried to run down a police officer in his car.

He was freed from prison last month after his lawyers applied for a reconsideration of his sentence.

The Northern Territory Government opposed his release saying his past behaviour suggested he was likely to reoffend.

But he was released into the BushMob program in Alice Springs, where he is now undergoing rehabilitation.

Despite his lawyers asking the media to give him privacy, Voller last week approached ABC radio saying he wanted to be interviewed.

“I do believe I should have behaved a lot better but it’s hard, it wasn’t that easy,” he said.

He said he hoped the Royal Commission would lead to reform in the NT’s youth justice system.

“I think it’s the attitude of guards they need to look at and who they hire because at the moment they just hire people that are big and know how to restrain people, when really they just need people who can sit down and have a chat with the young people,” he said.