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Jail officer ‘might be killed if authorities doesn’t get a grip’ after current assaults, Robert Jenrick warns

By Editorial Board Published May 12, 2025 4 Min Read
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Jail officer ‘might be killed if authorities doesn’t get a grip’ after current assaults, Robert Jenrick warns

A jail officer might be killed if the federal government doesn’t get a grip following current assaults, the shadow justice secretary mentioned.

Robert Jenrick mentioned violence towards jail officers has “spiralled out of control in just the past month” after a number of have been injured, by Axel Rudakubana at HMP Belmarsh final week, and by Hashem Abedi at HMP Frankland on 12 April.

Southport triple youngster killer Rudakubana allegedly threw boiling water from a kettle at a jail officer by a hatch in his cell door on Friday.

Manchester Area bomb plotter Abedi threw sizzling cooking oil at three officers and stabbed them with improvised blades at a kitchen in a separation centre holding seven prisoners with extremist views, together with extremist preacher Anjem Choudary.

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Hashem Abedi threw sizzling cooking oil at jail officers and used a makeshift knife to stab them. Pic: PA

Asking an pressing query for a response to Rudakubana’s assault, Mr Jenrick queried why a “snap review” into jail security ordered by the federal government after Abedi’s assault three weeks in the past nonetheless has no solutions.

“I’m warning now, if the government doesn’t get a grip, a prison officer will be killed,” he instructed the Commons.

“We’ve had enough reviews, we need action. That’s the least prison officers deserve.”

Mr Jenrick mentioned each jail officer coping with harmful inmates needs to be supplied with a stab vest “not in June, but now”.

He additionally known as for justice minister Sir Nicholas Dakin to order the removing of “every kettle from high-risk prisoners” now, as he mentioned officers have instructed him assaults with boiling water are “not uncommon”.

“I couldn’t care less if Rudakubana never had a hot drink again, nor would the British public,” he mentioned.

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Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick mentioned a jail officer might be killed if issues do not change

Sir Nicholas refused to ban kettles right away, saying if a “risk is identified regarding kettle use, or intelligence is received that one might be used in assault, the kettle will be withdrawn”.

Nevertheless, he mentioned entry to kitchens was withdrawn straight after Abedi’s assault, however the assessment into eradicating gear, comparable to kettles, is advanced.

He mentioned the opinions, together with one into Rudakubana’s assault, are being executed “in fast time but they need to be done properly”.

Sir Nicholas mentioned overcrowded prisons are inflicting elevated violence to jail officers, a difficulty he accused the earlier Conservative authorities of failing to sort out.

North Durham Labour MP Luke Akehurst mentioned lots of his constituents are officers at HMP Frankland and revealed that in the course of the assault by Abedi, they have been unable to make use of batons because the house was too small to wield them, and the convicted assassin was “so enraged” pepper spray had no impact on him.

“Clearly, they need additional equipment,” he mentioned.

Sir Nicholas added a trial into two varieties of tasers might be launched this summer season for specialised officers, with the findings to tell any future use of them in jail “so that we can get it right in the future”.

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