Portland ice trafficker Steven Logan is the man who saved convicted drug lord Tony Mokbel from being stabbed to death at Barwon earlier this week.
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Logan, 31, previously of Richardson Street, pleaded guilty to trafficking ice in the Warrnambool County Court last November after being caught with 702 grams of ice valued at about $350,000.
Police sources have confirmed Logan became friends with Mokbel while they were both incarcerated at Barwon Prison.
Logan was sentenced to serve four years in jail at the Warrnambool County Court on November 13 last year.
Police raided Logan's home in February last year which led to him being arrested and charged.
Today a Victorian magistrate is set to hear more details about the jailyard stabbing which left Mokbel in hospital fighting for life.
The 53-year-old remains in a serious condition in Royal Melbourne Hospital on Friday, when two men are due to face Geelong Magistrates Court over the attack.
Teira Bennett and Eldea Teuira, both 21, are charged with Mokbel's attempted murder.
The pair also faces allegations of intentionally causing serious injury and causing serious injury intentionally in circumstances of gross violence against Mokbel and Logan.
Monday's attack at the maximum-security Barwon prison allegedly involved the use of makeshift knives, known as "shivs".
The incident occurred a day after a newspaper report that Mokbel intervened in a standover racket run by Pacific Islander inmates.
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton brushed off notions of a gangland hit.
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