Two of Australia’s most infamous female inmates are caught in a terrifying feud so intense, prison officials have slapped them with a strict non-association order — they’re not allowed to see or even speak to each other again.
Jessica Camilleri, now 37, made headlines in 2019 after she brutally killed her own mother, Rita, stabbing her more than 100 times and decapitating her. The court heard she had a long history of violence and obsession with horror films, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. After her 2020 trial, she was convicted of manslaughter due to substantial mental impairment and sentenced to 16 years and six months, with a non-parole period of 12 years, reported the Mirror.
Since being locked up, Camilleri has continued to be a serious problem behind bars. She’s reportedly launched attacks on fellow inmates and guards, even ripping out “clumps of hair” in violent bursts of rage. Sources claim she’s had more time added to her sentence for these repeated outbursts — some so extreme she’s been described as having “scalped people with her bare hands.”
Now, she’s reportedly at war with another dangerous inmate — Rebecca Jane Butterfield, a woman long known in Australia’s prison system for her violent behaviour. Butterfield, now 50, first went to jail back in 2000 for an assault, but things took a horrifying turn in 2003 when she murdered fellow inmate Bluce Lim Ward by stabbing her 33 times with industrial scissors. Since then, she’s racked up over 110 disciplinary breaches, including 40 violent assaults.
The tension between the two exploded almost immediately after they crossed paths in Silverwater prison. A prison insider told Daily Mail Australia that Butterfield can’t handle Camilleri’s frequent comments about her mother’s murder — it’s a trigger that reportedly sends her into violent rages. “They hate each other,” the source said, adding that Butterfield spirals when reminded of her own traumatic past involving her stepmother, making Camilleri’s words especially incendiary.
Due to the intensity of their feud, the prison has now enforced a non-association order to keep the pair apart at all costs.
Butterfield has since been moved out of Silverwater and was quietly transferred to Long Bay prison before being released in 2024 into a secure forensic hospital as an involuntary patient. Despite her sentence ending nearly eight years ago, her future still hangs in the balance as doctors decide if she’s ever safe enough to return to society.
Camilleri remains at Dillwynia Correctional Centre, where she reportedly launched yet another violent attack just this February — once again pulling out a fellow inmate’s hair. It was reportedly her sixth such incident.
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