“It’s just a matter of time for prisoners to be killed”: Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana, 18, warned that “throw boiled water on prison officials”
A former governor warned yesterday after another violent attack after the prison that a prison official would be murdered unless frontline personnel are better protected.
Professor Ian Acheson aimed at the “raiser” culture of dangerous criminals after the attack in Belmarsh High Security prison, when Southport three-man killer Axel Rudakubana allegedly threw boiling water at the guards.
It is understood that the 18-year-old was able to boil water in a kettle in his cell and throw it into the hatch.
Staff were screamed by guards and were treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolvich. He was discharged from the hospital after treatment for minor injuries and will return to work next week.
The attack came after terrorist Hashem Abedi, 28, of Manchester Arena, threw three guards into oil in a quarantine department in HMP Frankland, Durham County.
He then stabbed them with a “homemade weapon” and stabbed them from death. The police have launched an investigation.
Rudakubana killed Alice Da Silva Aguiar, Nine Nine, Nine Nine, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Sive’s Bebe King in a dance class last July, killing Alice Da Silva Aguiar for 52 years in a dance class last July.
Severe attacks on prison officials increased by 19% in a year, according to the Home Office.
Southport killer Axel Rudakubanu (pictured) is known
The 18-year-old triple murderer reported an attack on HMP Belmarsh (pictured) on the Thames River in east London (pictured)
Professor Ian Acheson (pictured) is a former prison governor who says the balance of British prisons has been completely misrepresented, especially in Belmarsh, favoring prisoners’ rights against the harm they may cause to prison officials
Professor Archison, who led an independent review of Islamic extremism in prisons, called on prison services to place employee protection above prisoners’ rights.
He said: “Prisoners who have kettles are not human rights, especially when dangerous people can use them as weapons.
“This miserable young man was accompanied by a dangerous forest, and given that I could not see any reason, he would get anything other than the food and drink that brought him to the cell, because the risks he posed were serious and obvious.
“There has been escalated recently in violent attacks and it is reasonable to conclude that we are closer than ever to the murder of a prison official. That is a truly important prospect, a prospect overlooked by prison services.
“This balance has been completely misrepresented, especially in Belmarsh, favoring the rights of prisoners against the harm they may cause to prison officials.
“This balance is dangerous and requires recovery.”
Rudakubana is believed to be in a cell at the health care center in Belmarsh when the attack occurred.
It was “not surprising” to him on that wing because of his criminal nature and his life sentence would put him at a high risk of self-harm.
Rudakubana was sentenced to life after a quick-themed dance class on Taylor last July, murdering Bebe King (left), Elsie Dot Stancome (middle) and Alica da Silva Aguiar (right)
Rudakubana
“Violence in prison will not be tolerated and we will always urge the greatest punishment for attacks on our hard-working employees,” a spokesperson for the Justice Department said.
But former prison governor Professor Archison called the statement “delusional, hopeless boiler plate garbage” and added: “Not only can it be tolerated, but it can be normalized. People who run prison services always talk about being overcrowded, but none of these high-security prisons are overcrowded – none of them. There are other things happening.
“And I believe other things are completely inappropriate habits by the leadership through the very dangerous prisoners who effectively throw frontline workers under the bus.”
When Abedi was sentenced to jail for helping his brother in a 2017 suicide bomb attack, he attacked prison officials in Frankland, equipped with only extendable batons and incompetent spray cans.
He was moved to Belmarsh and was locked up in a quarantine unit with Rudakubana.
A Scottish yard spokesman said: “Metropolis are investigating after prison officials were severely attacked in HMP Belmarsh.”
