In 1975, an eighteen stone toe cutter called Mark Brandon Read and his mentor, a Hungarian migrant nicknamed Mad Charlie, allegedly murdered a child killer in Pentridge Prison, and made it look like he had hanged himself.
The dead man was Reginald Isaacs. Months earlier, he had led detectives to the body of a nine year old boy.
Every man in Pentridge knew what he had done.
The coroner called Isaacs' death suicide. The official record said suicide for thirty eight years, until Chopper Read told a television camera it was nothing of the sort. That he and his mentor had beat and killed him.
Nobody was ever charged.
Years later Mad Charlie was shot dead in his own front garden.
But why? And by whom…