Jan 27, 2025 · A prison officer was horrifically slashed across the face by violent prisoner Martin Bates, who is serving life for murder in HMP Wakefield, with an improvised weapon made from a disposable...

Noel "Razor" Smith (born 24 December 1960) is a British writer and former criminal. He has spent the greater part of his adult life in prison, serving a life sentence for armed robbery.

2 days ago · A prisoner who murdered a fellow inmate in a brutal attack at HMP Maidstone using a broken chair and the shattered remains ... claiming Mr Adi had entered his cell and threatened him with a razor ...

Feb 17, 2022 · In June last year, the 26-year-old man walked up to a prison officer who was supervising an exercise yard at HMP Swansea, and slashed him across the face and neck with a knife fashioned from a razor blade.

Mar 30, 2024 · In one of the latest attacks, an inmate slashed his target across the face and back of the leg with a razor melted into a toothbrush. The blade severed one of the victim’s arteries, causing...

Sep 21, 2022 · A serving prisoner who tried to murder a prison officer by slashing his throat with a razor blade attached to a toothbrush has been jailed for life. Joshua Kendall, 29, launched the attack...

POA National Chairman Mark Fairhurst believes that the directors of HMPPS must act now to remove razor blades from prisons in England and Wales. Razor blades have been a key part of manufactured weapons in our prisons. Prison Officers and prisoners have suffered horrific injury’s when attacked with these improvised weapons.

Mar 6, 2024 · That this House condemns the horrific and cowardly unprovoked razor attack on a prison officer at HMP Humber on 9 February 2024, which resulted in 53 stitches for a facial wound; notes with alarm the rising tide of prison violence since the end of pandemic lockdowns, with assaults against staff up 16% and the total number of assaults up 21% ...

Following the horrific attack on a prison officer at HMP Swansea the POA urge HMPPS Directors to remove razor blades from Prisons in England and Wales. Upload, livestream, and create your own videos, all in HD.

Feb 17, 2025 · And to be fair, when you have an issue or need anything and raise it with a member of staff, they do get stuff sorted and do their job properly. This jail is an HMP-run jail. I notice in HMP-run jails the staff do their job properly compared to privately-run jails, e.g. Serco or G4S. The bad points about this prison: it takes a long time to get ...