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Ijaah Shawn Murray avoided a custodial sentence when he appeared in the dock at Poole Magistrates’ Court. Murray, 27, of Churchill Road, Bournemouth, was convicted of three counts of assaulting an emergency worker by beating. The offences were committed at HMP Rochester in Kent. At the court hearing the defendant received a 12-month community order, […]
A serving prisoner who attacked a prison officer at HMP Bullingdon has been given a further prison sentence of three and a half years. Godwin Dayoni, aged 21, now residing at HMP Wandsworth, pleaded guilty to a Section 24 Offences Against the Person offence in a hearing at Oxford Crown Court today (12/5). He was […]
A killer jailed for plunging a knife into the heart of a man has viciously punched a female prison officer because she “disrespected” him. Knife attacker Fabio Serrano was “clearly a very dangerous man” and he was aged just 16 when he killed the man in front of shocked passers-by in broad daylight. He had […]
A man has been jailed for assault, leaving a prison officer with a ‘dislocated elbow’ at HMP Berwyn. Adam Smith, 31, of NFA in Rhyl, appeared before Mold Crown Court yesterday, Thursday, March 23. He previously pleaded not guilty to a charge of assaulting a person thereby occasioning actual bodily harm at a plea and […]
Ben Plaistow was a loyal and dedicated Prison Officer of ten years unblemished service – who will now never work again. Ben was attacked, assaulted, humiliated, forced to disclose his sexual orientation, was belittled, had fingernails scratched down his face, water sprayed into it, was slapped, pushed across a table and had his work bag […]
The Independent Monitoring Board at HMYOI Wetherby have published their 2021/2022 annual report – click the link below to read the full report. Development is required in the following areas: TO THE MINISTER The Board would like to know what the long-term plans are for young female prisoners. Violent offences involving young people within the […]
A man who threw a cup of coffee in a prison officer’s face after being convicted of threatening to kill his sister with a knife has been jailed. Alistair Cowin, 39, injured the guard on 30 June last year the day after a jury found him guilty. Douglas Courthouse, on the Isle of Man, heard […]
UPDATE: 11.45 – Sentence delayed until the New Year. Serco the prison and escort contractor, which was due to be sentenced today for health and safety failings that led to a mentally-ill prisoner kicking a prison officer to death, has had the case adjourned until the New Year. Today (Wednesday 21st December 2022), the case […]
The number of assaults on police has increased from 23,000 to more than 40,000 since ministers quadrupled the maximum sentence from six months in jail to two years for assaulting an emergency worker. Research suggests tougher sentences are failing to deter assaults, with increasing numbers apparently committed by people with mental health conditions. The data, obtained […]