Disturbing accounts of attacks on prison officers at HMP Belmarsh have been given by former officers and inmates.
In fact, a friend of mine who I worked with has had three lots of boiling water thrown over him.’ In December 2013, he pleaded guilty in the US to allowing two articles supporting the Taliban to feature on a website he ran. He has since said he never supported any act of terrorism and now wants to build ties between the British government and Muslim communities. ‘Everyone, including future victims, is put at risk. Hassan and Saeed were each handed three-year jail terms. The former inmate said: ‘Occasionally, you will get a prison officer who just wants to be an idiot, and this officer would be coming and he would be doing things like taking an extra milk cartoon because you are only meant to have one or taking an extra pillow or taking an extra blanket, so a group of prisoners decided to teach him a lesson.
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"It’s an unwritten rule of prison that if you borrow something, the value of that increases double a week. Ten times the value when you transport it into prison custody.” It adds: “There are 64 different gangs in the prison.
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'It is the only prison that I go to that there are cameras even in the consultation room. 'If you take a nail clipper, you can use it to actually open the tuna. I was sitting down and I see his head popping round the door, he had a big jug and he just launched it at me. HMP Belmarsh, in Thamesmead, South East London, houses category A criminals. Took my top off, and when I looked into the mirror, I was white.' He was doused in 'sugar water' over a drug deal gone wrong inside the prison I could see the bubbles coming on my skin.' 'If you can't break though the wall, you can escape in another way. 'I went to his cell, lost my temper, I ended up punching him. It's a lucrative business,' Frake explained. Moazzam Begg, who was accused of terrorism and held at Belmarsh for seven months on remand in 2014, said: 'You are now essentially in the closest thing that you could be to a grave, to a coffin' Moazzam Begg, who was accused of terrorism and held at Belmarsh for seven months on remand in 2014, said: 'You are now essentially in the closest thing that you could be to a grave, to a coffin.
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“So a group of prisoners, they decided to teach him a lesson. For about ten minutes they just battered him all over the place.” “Occasionally you will get a prison officer who just wants to be an idiot.