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The last time they let Mohamad Barkhadle out of jail, he went on to be accused of even worse crimes against women — including the 2017 slaying of a single mom. Her body wasn’t discovered for 10 days and her two-year-old boy had to fend for himself in their fifth-floor public housing unit in Mechanicsville.

Once back in jail after his arrest, Barkhadle was later charged with another count of first-degree murder, this time in the April 2018 jailhouse beating of inmate Marco Michaud, 36.

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Right after the killing, Barkhadle, 32, was placed in solitary confinement where he’s remained for almost 250 days, and he’s been demanding to be released back into general population ever since.

“I don’t care if people care about me, but I have rights like every other inmate. This is my cry for help,” Barkhadle said in an interview on Monday.

The accused killer likened his stay in solitary to unlawful detention and expects his Toronto lawyer to file a legal motion to get him out of his segregation cell, where he spends most days reading the Qur’an and law books. (UN experts say that anything beyond 15 days in solitary can cause physical and psychological harm.)