The 'lost brother' killed within an hour of entering his prison cell By Tim Rose • News Editor 10:06am Apr 14, 2019 Craig Behr was seven years into a 10-year sentence for aggravated break and enter when he was transferred from Goulburn jail to Sydney's Long Bay prison complex for a … This is what serial killer Ivan Milat’s life was like in Supermax before his death. “If we let ’em in with the rest of the pen they would end up in a way I don’t care to describe to you.”. Were these missing women victims of Ivan Milat in the 1970's? “Front room, table, chair, fridge, sink, hot/cold taps, bench, power points etc, and a similar space area at the back. “There is no openings once door shut, no windows, no contact, cannot hear anyone, very silent, deprived of any sense of time, a punishment place.”. “But I do expect basic services available to others to be given to me.”. When we got to Milat’s day room, the serial killer began to become agitated. In 2001 it came to us in sealed packs and that is how it is in all NSW prisons. An early form of supermax-style prison unit appeared in Australia in 1975, when "Katingal" was built inside the Long Bay Correctional Centre in Sydney. The serial killer had been convicted in 1996 and handed seven life sentences for the murders of two Australian, two British and three German backpackers aged in their 20s. If that didn’t work, he was always scheming an escape, usually via a hospital stay after self-harming by swallowing metal or, in his most famous attempt, by cutting off his finger. “Politicians are like rock spiders mate. It wasn’t long after Mr Fisher was incarcerated in 2005 he ended up sharing a cell with an inmate whose horrific crimes stunned Australia. Referring to himself as “one” and using quaintly elaborate prose, Milat told news.com.au: “It’s not that we (are) just stuck in a cell all day. Milat also revealed the atmosphere in Supermax was fairly calm because prison officers realised they had to keep the violent murderers on an even keel. Picture: Sam RuttynSource:Supplied, Milat was banned from the prison library at Goulburn Correctional Centre after hunger strikes and slashing his arm. “Breakfast TV news certainly played it up and the Minister for Corrective Services now was ordering the Commissioner to remove those items from me. A day yard inside Supermax where Milat, accused terrorists and Australia’s worst murderers enjoy a reasonable existence, according to the serial killer.Source:Supplied, Milat details his routine inside Supermax in exclusive letters to news.com.au. But Supermax generally was an easier place to do time than out in the yards of Goulburn main prison. The state government has accelerated plans to sell Long Bay jail. “Anyway thanks again — I am very aware of DNA but under the impression that it all gone. He said family letters sent to the prisoner often took weeks to arrive, and Milat’s letters to his sisters and brothers were subject to long delays. “During the day one can wander around the front or back yard,” Milat wrote in neatly penned handwriting. “Still in segro-solitary conditions,” he wrote, “no chance of it changing unless I take real drastic steps. Not sure exactly who he was for a few minutes, it would dawn on him this was the detective who basically locked him up. Date significance updated: 08 Nov 00 I have the front and back as well. “It certainly is high security, the number of keepers to care for us, five-six or more before they open up a cell even just to hand over the mail or our meals. Milat’s hunger strikes to the same end never lasted long because he “loved his tucker” too much. David Dungay died in December 2015 at Sydney's Long Bay Jail. Razor wire above a yard at Goulburn prison complex which houses Supermax. The ‘Aussie/Asian yard’ at Goulburn main prison viewed from the catwalk above. “You refer to crowded in HRM?,” he writes, “it isn’t. He complained about Supermax, wanted more time in the yard and kept glancing back at Mr Small. “So if I’m in a group of 3 cells … they open up to a front common room and at the back a back yard so to speak. No guess work on that, once a person declares himself a Muslim then he always issued the religious friendly meals.”. Milat was on suicide watch for four days before returning to his Supermax cell and normal jail meals. The infamous jail, which neighbours the suburbs of Maroubra and Little Bay in Sydney’s South East and his home to people like Neddy Smith and Roger Rogerson, has received a funding injection, with the main aim of expanding the State Politicians Wing. In 2016, I wrote to Milat and received a letter in reply in which he talked about his life in Supermax, the sandwich maker controversy and the prison’s mostly Muslim inmates. All times AEDT (GMT +11). Write CSS OR LESS and hit save. After the incident, Milat’s brother Wally told The Sun-Herald he was seriously concerned about Ivan’s health. Milat began talking quickly and punching the air, arguing a point about one of the young backpackers he shot or stabbed to death in Belanglo. Hamilton said that the main reason that they needed to expand it was that Corrective Services is expecting a fair bit more business over the next couple of years. Months later, writing to his old cellmate Makkah, with whom he had been locked up after his original May, 1994 arrest, Milat complained he was still in virtual solitary confinement. Credit: Sahlan Hayes. One afternoon at Supermax when Mr Woodham and the senior police officer who tracked down the serial killer, Clive Small, were visiting inmates, news.com.au went along.