Guard reveals what convicted killer Andrew Albury is like behind bars

DERANGED killer Andy Albury quotes filthy lines from Silence of the Lambs, strips off naked when he doesn’t get his own way and guards say it’s only a matter of time before he seriously hurts one of them

Convicted murderer Andrew Albury has been dubbed the Hannibal Lecter of the Northern Territory.

DERANGED killer Andy Albury quotes filthy lines from Silence of the Lambs, strips off naked when he doesn’t get his own way and guards say it’s only a matter of time before he seriously hurts one of them.

Albury is serving life, without the possibility of parole, for the brutal 1983 murder of 29-year-old Gloria Pindan on Mitchell St.

He stabbed her 28 times, cut off her nipples and pulled out one of her eyes using his finger.

Albury’s sick mind has been well documented, once telling a psychiatrist when asked why he killed: “It doesn’t worry me what I kill – they’re all blood and guts inside.”

If ever released he has vowed to kill again.

Now one of the guards with the unenviable task of looking after Albury inside the Darwin Correctional Centre has revealed what he’s like inside.

“He’s institutionalised and he knows how to push buttons,” the guard said.

Albury, now 54, has been in prison since he was 21 years old, and is kept in virtual isolation.

He has mixed with other prisoners before and, remarkably, was even rated for medium security in Alice Springs at one point.

“It’s just when he gets in one of these moods, that can last for six months or two years with him, you can’t let him near other prisoners or he’s likely to grab the first thing he can and try and kill someone,” the guard said.

Albury’s a “big bloke” but when he doesn’t get his own way his behaviour quickly descends into that similar of a toddler.

His standard method of protest is to strip off nude.

“He’ll be naked in his cell constantly, then the next thing he’ll do is throw all of his clothes down the toilet and flood his cell.

“He’ll use his faeces to write on the walls, he’s been doing it for years and years.”

He doesn’t have a TV because he keeps smashing them during his tantrums.

The NT News has previously reported Albury asked prison officers at Darwin Correctional Centre if he could watch thriller The Silence Of The Lambs.

He even borrows one of the lines from the film in an attempt to degrade female guards saying: “I can smell your c---”.

The ex-abattoir worker, is the prime suspect in up to 14 unsolved murders and every couple of years police from Queensland visit him in jail.

“They get new pieces of information and come up to interview him fairly often,” the guard said.

Last month Albury told a court he would continue “playing up” until he was moved from Darwin to Alice Springs where his brother can visit him. He said he had “been waiting for the right weapon” to hurt someone in prison since he was moved from Alice Springs.