Late last night, news broke of another attack by a high-profile prisoner at what should be one of our most secure jails. This time it seems that Axel Rudakubana, the Southport killer, has thrown boiling water in the face of an officer at HMP Belmarsh, the London jail which Hashem Abedi was moved to after his brutal attack on staff at HMP Frankland last month. Rudakubana is reported to have committed this attack on Thursday afternoon.
Thankfully the member of staff has already been released from hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. The Ministry of Justice have insisted that ‘violence in prison will not be tolerated and we will always push for the strongest possible punishment for attacks on our hardworking staff’. Frankly, it isn’t good enough.
When the death penalty was scrapped the expectation was that innocent people would be kept safe from those spared the noose.
Prisoners like Axel Rudakubana and Hashem Abedi are not like most inmates.
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