The brother of Manchester Arena terrorist attacks three prison officers today.

Oh one of my neighbours works there .

Apparently it’s the 2nd time he’s done similar. He already had time added to his sentence for carrying out an attack on a guard in Belmarsh with two other terrorists.

His brother Salman died when he detonated the bomb killing 22 at the Ariana Grande concert here in Manchester in May 2017.

A close friend was governor grade there. Evidently, it’s a badly designed prison with ‘dead areas’ where staff can’t be seen. Additionally, in the high security estate, boiling water/sugar water and hot oil are a daily risk for staff and inmates.

Hashem Abedi is clearly a very dangerous man. Surely he will be charged with offences and any privileges will be lost from today.

Why was he allowed to get his hands on hot cooking oil?

You’d wonder that - at the very least - wouldn’t you?

As my governor friend said, cooking facilities a constant risk

Makes you think of the days when prisoners were kept manacled to a wall - and they didn't need to be particularly dangerous.

mae13

Why was he allowed to get his hands on hot cooking oil?

Was he working in the kitchen?
Hot oil? Knives?
Surely the prison staff should have more sense than to allow him access to such weapons?

I hope the prison officers will recover. ☹

Iam64

As my governor friend said, cooking facilities a constant risk

Then prisoners ought not to be allowed to do it!
Sheesh.
Such liberties …

He’s been sentenced to 55 years.
Now he probably thinks ‘why not? what they gonna do to me anyway?’

He’s got nothing to lose has he?

I once taught there, part time, many years ago. Scares me when I think about it now. I do hope those officers will be OK, although it sounds like their injuries will be horrendous. What an evil man Abedi is.

That’s right friedGreenTomtoes, nothing to lose and clearly a dangerous violent man. He conspired with other terrorist prisoners and attacked officers in Belmarsh prison where previously held.
Franklin takes high security prisoners. Where next I wonder

We, the public have to pay for this monster. How he came to be anywhere near hot oil or knives I don’t know, for the rest of his sentence keep him in a cell, if he destroys it let him live in it. Thoughts are with the people injured.

Iam64

As my governor friend said, cooking facilities a constant risk

Then don’t let the swine near it!

Throw him in solitary.

It beggars belief.

Is it because of his human rights that he is allowed near such potentially dangerous weapons as hot oil, knives? It was reported on the news that the knives were home-made. How?

Security needs to be tightened up for such prisoners even it means solitary for a very long time.

Vile creature, sling him in to solitary for the rest of his sentence.

He needs to be in solitary without privileges for the remainder of his sentence. I suppose some idiot lawyer will argue that would be against his human rights. I don't support capital punishment but something like this makes me reconsider.

I don’t understand how a prisoner with this man’s history was allowed anywhere near hot oil.

This is just the sort who should be in solitary! And your family have to pay for your upkeep. If no money available, then bread and water!

I don't understand how such a dangerous man was given access to weapons. Hot oil and knives can kill.
He was complicit in killing many innocent people some only children.
Who in their right mind allowed him to work in a kitchen.

What criminals like him need is to be imprisoned in a bulletproof glass “cage” for the rest of his life. Robert Maudsley, also known as Hannibal the Cannibal has lived in one for many years at (I believe) Wakefield Prison.

It’s no good giving him extra length to his sentence as he is already serving 55 years.

Terrorists have all day and every day of sometimes exceptionally long sentences to observe staff, routines and weaknesses and carry out pre-meditated attacks. Prison staff dealing with them must be lucky every day, and that is an unacceptable burden.

From the Mail:

“The prison officers are stable after receiving life-threatening injuries when they were assaulted by Hashem Abedi at HMP Frankland, County Durham, yesterday.”

Not just terrorists - any violent prisoner as dangerous as him it has to be mostly solitary confinement/cuffing when the one hour exercise alone and so on.