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HM Prison Whitemoor (UK) - Serious assault incident

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  • 09-01-2020 7:10pm
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    dublinman1990
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    I'm hearing from the BBC this evening that 2 prisoners from HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire have been involved in a serious assault on 5 prison officers. News had broken a few minutes ago that the 2 prisoners are now being reported to have worn suicide vests while carrying out the assault.

    One of the prisoners involved in the assault is a terrorist prisoner.

    More detail on the story here.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-51049853


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    Will I Am Not
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    How could a prisoner get their hands on a suicide vest?


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    dublinman1990
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    I have no idea myself. Whitemoor is meant to be a top level 'Grade A' secure prison. It has some of the most dangerous criminals who live inside it's walls from the whole of the UK. It's now a matter by officers from Scotland Yard to investigate this incident. They should be able to come up with the details in how this incident began to unfold inside the prison. I am hoping that they come away with something meaningful.


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    Beasty
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    Will I Am Not wrote: »
    How could a prisoner get their hands on a suicide vest?
    I guess one question is whether it's something made to look like one.

    The other thing that seems to be rampant at present is the smuggling of things in via drones, but I would have thought they would have tight security against that sort of thing in any "top level" prison

    EDIT: see they are now being reported as fake suicide vests


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    [Deleted User]
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    Will I Am Not wrote: »
    How could a prisoner get their hands on a suicide vest?

    It was a fake according to the article linked to in the op, so most likely one made in the prison to look real?


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    pjohnson
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    Not the first time sausages have been made into a bomb.

    simpsons-armour-hot-dogs.png


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    AlekSmart
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    pjohnson wrote: »
    Not the first time sausages have been made into a bomb.

    simpsons-armour-hot-dogs.png

    Probably Quorn though......I'm not sure the traditional Irish breakfast sausage would go down well in this case ?


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    banie01
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    pjohnson wrote: »
    Not the first time sausages have been made into a bomb.

    simpsons-armour-hot-dogs.png

    Is there nothing that show hasn't predicted :pac:


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    Graces7
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    Security is terrible. Last week a cat called Padfoot breached security at an English jail; walked along the razor wire... sorry; cannot post links,,


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    jimgoose
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    Graces7 wrote: »
    Security is terrible. Last week a cat called Padfoot breached security at an English jail; walked along the razor wire... sorry; cannot post links,,

    HMP Haverigg in Cumbria. A cat making it's way to the top of an outer perimeter fence and getting it's fool arse stuck up there isn't much of a security breach, either. :pac:


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    Boggles
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    Attacks on prison officers are fairly common.
    Assaults on prison staff and inmates rose to a record high last year with almost 30 attacks on officers every day - equivalent to at least one an hour,

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/04/25/assaults-prison-hit-record-high-27-attacks-inmates-staff-every/

    Hardly need for a thread on here for this one, is there?


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    Graces7
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    HMP Haverigg in Cumbria. A cat making it's way to the top of an outer perimeter fence and getting it's fool arse stuck up there isn't much of a security breach, either. :pac:

    Leading the way ;)


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