Durham
\nHashem Abedi, convicted for aiding the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, launched a violent assault on three prison officers at HMP Frankland in Durham, causing life-threatening injuries.
\nAbedi, 28, threw boiling cooking oil and used improvised weapons to stab the staff inside a specialist separation unit that houses some of Britain\u2019s most dangerous inmates, according to the Prison Officers\u2019 Association (POA). One woman and two men were injured in the incident.
\nThe female officer has since been discharged, while the others remain in hospital with serious burns and stab wounds. Counter Terrorism Policing North East has taken over the investigation, supported by Durham Constabulary.
\n\u201cThis is an ongoing investigation which is in its early stages,\u201d said CTP Commander Dom Murphy. Abedi was sentenced to a minimum of 55 years in prison in 2020 for 22 counts of murder and other terror offences.
\nHe was also convicted in 2022 for a separate attack on officers at HMP Belmarsh, receiving an additional term of nearly four years.
\nFollowing the latest assault, POA Chair Mark Fairhurst called for immediate restrictions on prisoner privileges in separation centres.
\n\u201cAccess to cooking facilities and dangerous items must be stopped. These prisoners need only basic entitlements,\u201d he said.
\nJustice Secretary Shabana Mahmood condemned the attack and pledged \u201cthe strongest possible punishment\u201d.
\nFormer governor John Podmore called it a \u201ccatastrophic security failure.\u201d
\nThe Ministry of Justice said violence in prisons \u201cwill not be tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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