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An accused murderer and rapist, a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman, and a man police believe tried to rob Bitcoin dealers at gunpoint have all been charged with attempting to kill a fellow inmate in a jailhouse attack last week.

Homicide detectives have charged Mohamed Barkhadle, 32, Pierre Senatus, 22, and Jimmy St. Hilaire, 19, with attempted murder after the April 11 jailhouse beating that left 36-year-old Marco Michaud with severe head injuries. He remains in hospital in an induced coma.

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No weapons are believed to have been used in the attack, which occurred at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre’s day room.

Michaud, who was in detention awaiting trial on a charge of second-degree murder, was taken to hospital after the attack that left him with severe life-threatening head injuries. He remained there Tuesday.

Michaud had turned himself in to homicide detectives just weeks ago, on Feb. 24, after police obtained a warrant for his arrest for what was an ultimately fatal beating in Vanier.