"While serving three years' periodic detention for drug trafficking, Gittany and another inmate attempted to secure their early release by injecting themselves with a syringe of hepatitis C-infected blood they had smuggled into their cell.
They planned to argue that the syringe was found in their bedding at Silverwater jail, and that the ordeal was so traumatic they should be discharged on medical and humanitarian grounds, Fairfax Media reported at the time.
But their ruse came to an end at Auburn Hospital when prison guards revealed their scam, inspired by hypomanic Sydney stockbroker
Rene Rivkin, had been monitored from the beginning."
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