A man has appeared in court charged with trying to attack Britain’s most prolific rapist in prison.
Jack McRae, is accused of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm to Reynhard Sinaga at HMP Wakefield on 4 July 2023.
Sinaga was jailed in 2020 after being convicted of drugging and raping 48 men in Manchester, although police said at the time they believed his real number of victims was much higher.
Appearing at Leeds Magistrates Court via video-link from HMP Frankland, Mr McRae, 32, did not enter a plea and was remanded to appear at the city crown court on 16 January.
He is also charged with three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, one of attempting to cause actual bodily harm and one of assaulting a prison officer, all of which are said to have happened at HMP Wakefield between May and August 2023.
A co-defendant in the case, Andrew Beadie, was due to appear on a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, but refused to leave his prison cell at HMP Long Lartin in Worcestershire, the court was told.
It was not said who the alleged victim in Mr Beadie’s case was.
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