Murders
Scott Lawrence Topping, 22, was serving time for $1200 worth of unpaid traffic fines when he was murdered inside Woodford Correctional Centre, Queensland, on 12 September 1997. Topping had three weeks left to serve before his release. He would be the first person to be murdered by inmates in Woodford Correction Centre. The term “One day someone on fines will top themselves” is in reference to the murder of Scott Topping in prison. Mark Day was convicted of strangling 22 year old Scott Topping at Woodford prison. Ironically Mark Day was himself murdered in a prison in 2003.
At the Time of the murder of Scott Topping, the security CCTV systems were not fully operational.
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