Bryant under watch after second slashing

Bryant, who is serving 35 life sentences for shooting dead 35 people at Port Arthur in 1996, used a disposable razor blade he had hidden in his body to cut his neck early yesterday. On Sunday morning he used a disposable razor to cut his arm.

Both wounds required stitches at Royal Hobart Hospital, and he returned to jail within hours, said Tasmania's Director of Prisons Graeme Barber. I don't think that they were (life-threatening); however, if they hadn't have been detected and treated in a fairly quick response time they might have been, Mr Barber said.
Bryant was last night in the jail's hospital complex.

He is on higher level of watch where a staff member is with him all the time, Mr Barber said.
He (Bryant) was checked in prison at 8am and at 8.15am it was revealed that he had cut his neck with what turned out to be a disposable razor blade, about the size of a paper clip.

Mr Barber said it was very difficult to stop a prisoner intent on self-harm.
The implement that has been used is a razor blade out of a disposable razor that is available to all inmates on their canteen items, Mr Barber said.
It looks like this particular inmate has accumulated two razor blades, one we recovered late on Sunday afternoon from his cell, which was the implement that he used on Sunday.

We believe the second implement was secreted in his body during Sunday and he retrieved it and used it today.
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