An inmate serving a lengthy prison sentence for the “brutal and horrific” murder of a Sydney teenager has been fatally stabbed inside his cell.
Aymen Terkmani was found suffering stab wounds inside his Lithgow Correctional Facility cell on Wednesday. CCTV captured two men entering the cell.
Aymen Terkmani was sentenced in 2017 to a maximum of 45 years in prison. Credit: Wolter Peeters
Medical staff at the prison attended to Terkmani’s wounds before he was loaded into a helicopter; however, he died en route to hospital.
Terkmani, now 31, was 21 when he and 16-year-old Mahmoud Hrouk visited a dilapidated house in Fairfield East in 2015.
What followed was a murder and sexual assault deemed by Justice Lucy McCallum as “brutal and horrific”, with injuries “too numerous to list and too gruesome to describe”.
Mahmoud Hrouk was 16 years old when he was murdered.Credit: Facebook
McCallum found that Terkmani used household objects including a toaster, a rolling pin and a squeegee during the assault that caused Hrouk extensive head and neck injuries, facial fractures, brain damage and a collapsed lung.
Terkmani maintained his innocence throughout his 2017 trial. The court heard that the pair had met up and eaten dinner together at McDonald’s in Villawood before going together to the Fairfield East home.
When Hrouk didn’t return home by 9pm, he told his mother over the phone that he was with a friend.
Aymen Terkmani was found guilty of murdering Mahmoud Hrouk.
Later that night he called his mother and said, “I’m with my friend Aymen, come and pick me up”, and gave his mother a street name before the line cut out.
The next morning, Hrouk’s brother spotted the 16-year-old’s body through the window of the housing commission home, half naked and in a pool of blood.
Terkmani was found guilty and sentenced to a maximum of 45 years in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years.
Police are yet to lay charges in connection with Terkmani’s death.
“The facility was locked down and a crime scene has been established,” a NSW Police statement said.
“Detectives from Chifley Police District, with assistance from Homicide Squad, have commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding this incident.”
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