Mystery prisoner held in Canberra jail after secret conviction was raided by AFP over memoir

Existence of unidentified man came to light only when he challenged restrictions imposed over the memoir, which he had permission to write

A mysterious inmate in a Canberra prison who was prosecuted and jailed in complete secrecy has been subjected to an extraordinary crackdown after he wrote a prison memoir, including federal police raids on him and his family and the freezing of his phone and email access.

Little is known about the identity of the prisoner or his crimes, even by senior prison staff at the Alexander Maconochie Centre, the ACT’s jail, where he has been held since 2018.

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