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Two male officers sustained life-threatening injuries including
burns, scalds and stab wounds in the “unprovoked” and “vicious”
attack at Frankland prison in the northeast of England, it
added.
A female officer was released from the hospital on Saturday.
The union's national chairman, Mark Fairhurst, said the attack
was carried out in a separation center where inmates are allowed
to use cooking facilities.
These specialized units within prison were introduced in 2017
after a spate of terror attacks in the U.K., including in
Manchester, and were designed to isolate inmates deemed to have
extremist political or religious views and prevent them from
disrupting the prison estate, supporting acts of terrorism or
radicalizing other inmates.
“To allow that type of prisoner to access the kitchen and use of
the utensils that can be used as weapons against staff, and can
inflict serious harm on staff, that needs to be removed
immediately," Fairhurst told the BBC. “We’re now worried about
the knock-on effect of this and copycat incidents."
Abedi was convicted of assisting with the Manchester terror
plot, in which his suicide bomber brother Salman Abedi killed 22
people by detonating a a bomb hidden in a knapsack as fans were
leaving the Grande concert. In addition to those killed, more
than 260 people were wounded and hundreds of others were left
with psychological injuries.
Counterterrorism officials are leading the investigation into
the attack, with assistance from local police.
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said on X that she will be
"pushing for the strongest possible punishment. Violence against
our staff will never be tolerated.”
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