Hannah Maguire

Paramedics found a terrifying and gruesome scene waiting for them.

A blood-soaked Nini lay in bed, cowering and trembling, but miraculously still alive.

She's 88 years old.

Tony kept shrieking, she won't die, claiming he'd stabbed her multiple times in the chest, but for some reason, she just wouldn't die.

Tony had stabbed her eight times, in the chest, the arms, the hands, fracturing her ribs, but by some miracle, the knife hit bone each time, and Nini was spared from bleeding out.

As Nini recovered in hospital, Tony found himself once again behind bars.

This time at Rikers Island.

Charged with attempted murder, he was kept in the psychiatric area of the prison under observation for eight months.

But Rikers Island is a world away from the Terenzi of Broadmoor and its well-kept gardens.

It was very much a jailhouse environment.

But surprisingly, Shelter Tony didn't just cower in the corner.

Instead, he threw himself onto the prison social scene, using what he had at his disposal, shit-tons of money.

Now that he had accessed his trust fund, Tony allegedly lent out large sums of money in exchange for sexual favours from inmates and even guards.

Bizarrely, Tony seemed pretty confident that he would be getting out again quite soon.

Possibly because his victim, Nini, had survived his attack.

And maybe because despite everything, she still hadn't given up on him.

Staying steadfast in her love for her grandson, she later said, It didn't hurt because I loved him so much.

I think it is a good reminder of like, none of this is Tony's fault.

And at least she knows that.

And while Nene didn't have the power to overturn the case by dropping charges, there was a very real possibility that Tony might persuade her not to testify against him.