A prisoner has been sentenced to a hospital order after being convicted of strangling his cellmate to death with a TV aerial cord, before “tucking him up” in bedsheets. Michael Harkin, 35, killed Dan Childs, 38, and also wounded a second prisoner with an improvised blade in the showers at HMP Bristol in June last […]
Three Leicestershire prisoners accused of murdering a fellow inmate are set to face trial next year. Shaan Karim, 38, Thierry Robinson, 21, and Ashirie Smith, 18, are charged with the joint murder of another inmate at HMP Fosse Way, in Glen Parva, on Tuesday, August 20. The 31-year-old alleged victim, named in reports as Mahir Abdulrahman, […]
An inmate who was killed in a Staffordshire prison on Saturday has been named as Stephen Strutt, a convicted murderer. The 42-year-old was stabbed at HMP Dovegate, near Uttoxeter, where he was serving a life sentence. Strutt was one of four people convicted of the murder of Warren Glover, who in 2020 was beaten to death […]
An inmate shot and killed a 24-year-old woman working in the prison’s kitchen before turning the gun on himself. The fatal shooting occurred in the early hours of Sunday at the Smith State Prison in rural southeast Georgia. Read more >> Whoops! You need enhanced membership to access this page – login below or join now https://prisons.org.uk/register/enhanced
The murder in prison of a sex offender branded “Britain’s worst paedophile” could have been stopped, an official report has concluded. There was “a missed opportunity” to identify Richard Huckle, 33, was being attacked at Full Sutton Prison in East Yorkshire, the investigation discovered. He was murdered in a “prolonged attack designed to humiliate and degrade him” by inmate Paul Fitzgerald. […]
Update: A prisoner is set to face trial accused of murdering a fellow inmate at HMP Thameside. Roland Viaroade, 22, is accused of killing 29-year-old Quang Hguyen at the category B prison in Thamesmead. Metropolitan Police previously said officers were called to the prison at just after midday on February 7, 2023, after “reports of […]
The then racist young offender who murdered his Asian cell mate in Feltham Young Offender Institution has been granted parole after serving 23 years in prison. Robert Smith, then 20, bludgeoned Zahid Mubarek to death as he slept in 2000 An inquiry found Feltham Young Offenders Institute in west London was then ‘institutionally racist’ and […]