Burned with boiling water, 2016
Cowan was playing cards with other inmates in a common area of the prison around 9:15 a.m. on Friday, August 5.
During a break in play, Cowan briefly went to a training ground where he saw Adam Paul Davidson, then 31, standing outside the laundry door next to a hot water urn filling a yellow mop bucket.
When Cowan returned to the card game, Davidson asked another inmate to move the prisoners near his target.
Davidson then quietly approached Cowan from behind with the bucket and threw the boiling water over Cowan’s head and body.
Cowan screamed in pain and begged “why, why, why?”
Davidson said he planned the attack for a month and planned to “scar the damn caterpillar for life.”
The killer was left with skin peeling from his burned face, right shoulder, right arm and stomach.
A huge blister formed on his upper back and angry red, rough skin was visible on his arms, stomach and legs.
Some of his tattoos were damaged by the burns. A large skull wearing a top hat on Cowan’s right arm was covered in burned skin and growing yellow blisters.
When asked about the burning, Davidson told police, “I didn’t want to kill him or anything, I just wanted to hurt him… I just wanted him to feel the pain.”
‘Feel the pain that someone like Daniel Morcombe felt.’
Impaled in the neck with a sharp toothbrush, 2018
Authorities said the inmate who attacked Cowan last May used an “improvised device” to attack him in a common area.
Officers said the situation was quickly brought under control and no personnel were injured.
“(Cowan) was returned to the secure block shortly after treatment at the prison medical centre,” a spokesperson previously said.
No blood was drawn.
Prisoners plotted to throw heated herbs at him, 2018
Prisoners caused a huge riot during the latest targeted attack on Brett Cowan, using boiling hot jam, a sandwich maker and sharpened broomsticks.
Inmates plotted to throw heated spices and household items at the convicted murderer.
Cowan was in a prison block exercise yard when the riot broke out at Wolston Prison in Brisbane, The Courier Mail previously reported.
The riot was described by officers at the time as the worst in the prison’s history.
“He was at the training ground when they drove away, they all went outside,” officers said.
‘It was a distraction. They didn’t get him,” a prison guard told the newspaper.