A prison 'hitman' serving a life sentence earned thousands of pounds by targeting fellow inmates and staging pre-arranged fights behind bars, a court was told.
Gary Moody, 37, was paid to attack other prisoners in contract hits and take part in bare knuckle bouts between convicts, a judge heard.
The convicted robber, from Sunderland, was arrested in 2020 after slashing the face of former bouncer Christopher Zammit, from Salford, in an exercise yard at HMP Manchester, also known as Strangeways.
In the days after the attack, Moody rang a relative to ask if a £2,000 bounty he had been promised for the hit had arrived in a bank account.
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