British police are investigating an alleged assault on a prison officer by Southport triple murderer Axel Rudakubana—armed, reportedly, with boiling water prepared using a kettle in his cell.
While the injured officer was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, London for treatment, colleagues checked to see if the makeshift weapon had been mixed with sugar to cause more severe burns and scarring.
The attack was launched at Belmarsh prison at a time when Britain’s high-security prison estate is already under fire for lacking security. It comes less than a month after Hashem Abedi, the co-conspirator and brother of the Manchester Arena bomber, injured four guards on April 12th at HMP Frankland, Durham, using a mixture of boiling fat and home-made weapons.
The ability of dangerous prisoners to access scalding liquids during their life sentences, primarily for killing young girls, has bewildered the British public.
was in the healthcare unit under 24/7 monitoring but this was downgraded in the last couple of weeks,
a source told The Sun.
While prison officers’ lives are on the line, prompting demand for body armour and tasers, the service has begun advertising for a well-paid ‘Pagan Chaplain’ at HMP Leyhill.
