The number of people dying in prison rose by 30 per cent over the last year, reaching a record high, damning new figures revealed today. Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data shows that 411 people in prison died in the 12 months to the end of September 2025 — the highest total for that period since […]
Four prisoners at HMP Brinsford will spend an extra 10 years behind bars for attacking another inmate – with their ringleader also sentenced for attacks on prison officers. Brandon Addison, from Bilston, was sentenced alongside three other HMP Brinsford prisoners at Stafford Crown Court after they battered a new inmate at HMP Brinsford so severely […]
26th September 2025 The Manchester Arena bomb-maker Hashem Abedi used five makeshift knives to conduct a terrorist attack on prison officers while shouting “Allahu akbar”, prosecutors have alleged. Abedi, 28, is serving life in prison for helping his suicide bomber brother murder 22 people in the Manchester Arena atrocity in 2017. He has been charged […]
An inmate who thought a female prison officer had laughed at him returned to Norwich jail days after he was released and attacked the woman as she left work. Sam Morrison bore a grudge over an incident when armed officers were sent to deal with him while he was in a segregation unit at HMP […]
Front-line prison officers are to be given body armour and Tasers to defend against a surge in serious violence in jails. In his first interview as Justice Secretary, David Lammy also indicated he was prepared to make greater use of separation units for high-risk criminals and terrorists to protect officers from a “cohort of violent […]
A convicted rapist issued threats to a court before being handed a fourth life sentence for attempting to stab the neck of a prison officer. David O’Brien, who already has three life imprisonment orders for attempting to murder fellow inmates, was hauled before Manchester Crown Court after the most recent attack in October 2022. The […]
A man serving jail time for a stabbing outside a Darlington pub launched a brutal attack on four prison officers, egged on by inmates. But Kalvin Atkin was later released from prison, only to then try and strangle a lone police officer who he left bloodied in the middle of the road. Atkin, 27, was […]
Manchester Arena plotter Hashem Abedi has been charged with three counts of attempted murder after four prison officers were injured at a maximum security prison. Abedi, 28, is also charged with one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one count of unauthorised possession of a knife or offensive weapon after the incident at […]
A murderer serving 30 years for shooting dead an RAF cadet has had his sentence increased after he punched a prison officer. Sean Obazee, 31, punched the officer in the face at HMP Whitemoor, near March, Cambridgeshire, on 28 August last year. Police said he launched the unprovoked assault as the officer walked along a […]
From today, Monday 28th July, prisoners who use or threaten violence, or take part in incidents of indiscipline, face being tasered after Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, authorised the use of the devices in prisons for the first time in an attempt to combat spiralling violence in Britain’s overcrowded prisons. Highly trained specialist officers from […]
A “troubled” fire starter kicked, pinched, punched and bit prison staff, often when they were preventing her from self-harm, a court heard. Kari Johannessen made improvised weapons intending to use them on staff at Low Newton Prison, Durham, many of whom had been supportive of her. Durham Crown Court heard that until August last year […]
Assaults on prison staff by prisoners at Lewes Prison have risen despite better living conditions, a report has found. Incidents involving prisoners attacking staff rose by 15% in the space of a year to 79 assaults over 12 months, with prisoner self-harm also increasing by 5% to 651 cases during the same period. However, the […]