Hashem Abedi, the Manchester Area bombing plotter, has attacked three jail officers with sizzling cooking oil at a high-security jail, the Jail Officers’ Affiliation (POA) has stated.
The Jail Service confirmed Abedi carried out the “unprovoked” and “vicious” assault on Saturday at HMP Frankland in County Durham.
He’s reported to have thrown boiling oil on the officers earlier than stabbing them with “home-made weapons”.
The POA stated that they had sustained life-threatening accidents together with burns, scalds and stab wounds. All three officers had been handled in hospital, with one feminine officer discharged by 4pm on Saturday.
Abedi was jailed for all times in August 2020 for helping his brother, Salman Abedi, in finishing up the suicide bombing at Manchester Area in 2017. The assault killed 22 individuals and injured a whole bunch extra.
Responding to the assault, secretary of state for justice, Shabana Mahmood, wrote on X: “I’m appalled by the assault of three courageous officers at HMP Frankland at this time. My ideas are with them and their households.
“The police at the moment are investigating. I might be pushing for the strongest potential punishment. Violence in opposition to our employees won’t ever be tolerated.”
HMP Frankland is a class A jail, the best degree of safety.
Mark Fairhurst, nationwide chair of the POA, stated: “Separation centres maintain essentially the most harmful terrorist offenders who merely don’t want to alter their ideology, and as this occasion confirms, are decided to inflict violence on those that maintain them securely.”
He known as for an pressing evaluation of the privileges accessible to terrorist offenders in custody: “We should now evaluation the freedoms we enable separation centre prisoners to have.”
“I’m of the opinion that permitting entry to cooking amenities and objects that may threaten the lives of employees ought to be eliminated instantly.
“These prisoners want solely obtain their primary entitlements and we must always think about management and containment as an alternative of making an attempt to appease them. Issues have to alter.”
A spokesperson for the Jail Service stated: “Three jail officers have been handled in hospital after an assault by a prisoner at HMP Frankland. Police at the moment are investigating so it might be inappropriate to remark additional.
“Violence in jail is not going to be tolerated, and we are going to all the time push for the strongest punishment for assaults on our hardworking employees.”
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