Patrick O'Connell

type prisoners.

So we'd be talking, you know, there's a lot of people in prison and there's a huge range between the type of prisoners who are in prison.

Some of these guys just, you know, want to keep their head down and do their time.

But these guys, they were tied up.

He had barricaded the door.

The shouting and roaring was obviously heard by the prison officers.

They have a system in place for handling incidents like this straight away.

The governor would have been informed and officers would have been

you know, brought in to try and negotiate with Sean Powell.

That didn't work in this case, although they could hear him threatening the two prisoners inside in the cell.

He wasn't receptive to efforts to negotiate with him.

So a decision was made to shut down the entire prison

and to bring in the control and restraint teams.

These would be teams that, you know, you can almost picture them.

They're the guys who are there, you know, they have the shields and they're fully uniformed up in the riot gear.

So there was, I'm told, a number of teams brought in

Yeah, efforts to negotiate have failed, basically.

And there is a severe risk to the welfare of the other two prisoners, which there was in this case.

Yeah, absolutely.

So these guys, they breached the CRN teams, they breached the door of the cell and they went in and they took Sean Powell down.