A man has been found guilty of assisting Daniel Khalife after his high-profile escape from HMP Wandsworth.
And who would do such a thing? No doubt you too will be shocked at the name, Reader...
Adeel Khan, 32, from Waltham Forest, helped supply Khalife with money following his escape in September 2023.
And in a nice touch of irony:
Khan will be sentenced at the same court on September 4.
Can they both be put on the same depportation flight too?
Pet ferrets kept as therapy animals at the UK’s largest children’s prison have been co-opted by managers to kill rats, resulting in a bloody incident and concerns over child and animal welfare.
Sensible use of resources, give them a medal!
The unorthodox method of vermin control was waved through last month at HMYOI Wetherby in West Yorkshire following a surge in rat numbers in prison offices and grounds.
According to a union complaint seen by the Guardian, the decision resulted in a boy who looks after ferrets witnessing an “inappropriate and potentially distressing” savaging of a screaming rat.Another complaint suggests the gored (!) rodent was then “stomped to death” by a senior staff member in front of prison officers.
I wonder what the witness had done to be incarcerated, probably something a lot worse, so I am not convinced he’s a shrinking violet around violent acts.
The incident once again highlights the vermin-ridden conditions in which children and adults are detained within the prison estate across England and Wales.
Permission to use ferrets to hunt rats was given by a named member of the senior management team, the HSE complaint said.
Prison Service sources blamed the influx of rats at Wetherby on building work disturbing a rats’ nest. A Youth Custody Service spokesperson said: “This was an isolated incident relating to maintenance works. HMYOI Wetherby has since strengthened its pest control procedures to keep vermin out.”
So long as it similarly strengthens its security to keep vermin IN too, I could care less.
A union leader has accused the Ministry of Justice of 'unjustly' targeting a single member of staff over the mistaken release of the Epping hotel sex attacker.
Mark Fairhurst, national chair of the Prison Officers' Association (POA), said one person - a discharging manager - had been suspended over the freeing of Hadush Kebatu despite at least two more senior figures also being involved.
Quite right, Mark? Can I assume they have a different union to the one your low-level drone belongs to?
The POA member who has been suspended was responsible for going through paperwork to ensure the right prisoners were being released under the right conditions. However, he was checking paperwork that had been processed by more senior colleagues.
Two of them, to be precise:
Fourteen days before a prisoner is released, a 'hub manager' in the offender unit looks at the paperwork to ensure the right inmate is being released under the right conditions. Twelve days later, a more senior manager - at governor level, checks the paperwork, the licence and the warrant to ensure the correct person is being set free.
And it seems this it not the only time their oversight has been found wanting. Far from it:
It is not the first time HMP Chelmsford has released an inmate by mistake, with the prison also conned into freeing a fraudster two years ago.
As usual in these articles, we go to the PM for a word, as if he doesn't have a record for tolerating utter howling incompetence in his subordinates:
Asked today when the sex offender would be removed from the country, the Prime Minister's official spokesperson said 'you have us on record from this morning that we expect that to happen imminently', and suggested that would be within a few days. He said prison release errors 'are never acceptable' and 'this is another symptom of the justice system crisis inherited by this Government having suffered cuts to staffing, failure to build prison places' and 'chronic underinvestment'.It comes as the chief inspector of prisons said mistakes over prisoner releases are happening 'all the time' and are symptomatic of the chaos within the system.
Oh, it's all the Tories' fault somehow. Who could see that one coming?
...before he's safely back behind bars:
Lammy said officers from the Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police (BTP) and Essex Police were working together to trace Kebatu, who was jailed for 12 months in September.
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said the release was a "level of incompetence that beggars belief".
Not really, Kemi, We're pretty used to it now. I'm sure no-one was even really all that shocked to hear it. I certainly wasn't
The Prison Service has removed an officer from discharging duties while an investigation takes place.
Want to bet he won't be fired?
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said: "He is now walking the streets of Essex. Britain is broken."
Indeed it is, Nigel, indeed it is...
A 'Hamas-supporting' illegal Channel migrant who was released early from jail is back behind bars after breaching his licence conditions, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Palestinian Abu Wadee was sent back to prison within days of his release under Labour's scheme to ease pressure on the overcrowded prison estate.
*sighs*
The 33-year-old was initially jailed for nine months at Canterbury Crown Court in May after he was convicted over his illegal arrival in the UK on a dinghy, which he had live-streamed on TikTok.He was released from prison in June after serving around three months, including time spent in custody awaiting his plea hearing.
Pathetic, but sadly only to be expected.
Sources confirmed Wadee was recalled to prison early last month for breaching his licence conditions. He will now serve the remainder of his nine-month sentence behind bars. It is not known what prompted his recall to jail.
It is known, it's simply not been disclosed to the media. I wonder why?
A 12-month jail term usually triggers automatic removal from the UK, so a court will have to decide whether to deport Wadee.
If it's 'automatic' why is a court deciding? Surely by now it should be glaringly onbious that = whatever those in politics demand - the entire justice sysyem is seeded with do-gooders and Commom Purpose stooges who are carrying out theie instructions to ensure people lose all faith in it.
Manchester Arena terrorist Hashem Abedi has had full prison privileges restored for 'good behaviour' - despite an alleged brutal attack on guards in April. That reportedly means that he will be able to use the gym again and spend more time outside of his cell, The Sun reported. Other perks as a result of his regime being upgraded from 'basic' to 'standard' are believed to include additional canteen credit and more cash to spend on phone calls - and even a better TV package.
Beacause it appears to be the people who should have no say at all. Has the Howard League for Penal Reform taken a leaf from the general progressive movement and started their own Long March?
Prison authorities are concerned that he could encourage other prisoners to carry out attacks of their own, a source told The Sun. That raises the question of why Abedi's regime has been relaxed if officials still believe he is an active threat.
Errr, quite! And also the question of why he's not yet been charged with that assault?
The Ministry of Justice declined to comment. The prisons minister has been approached for comment.
If the prison officer's union calls for a strike, I wouldn't blame them.
A prison officer will be killed if the Government does not “get a grip” of “spiralling” violence by prisoners, Robert Jenrick has warned. 18-year-old Rudakubana allegedly used a kettle in his cell to heat the water before the attack at HMP Belmarsh on Thursday 8 May.
Why does a prisoner - any prisoner, let alone a killer - get a kettle in their cell? Is our prison service so utterly fallen to that long march through the institutions that the comfort of killers, rapists and terrorists is allowed to override the safety of those guarding them?
I know, rhetorical question…
“I have spoken to officers who say attacks with boiling water are not uncommon. Will he commit today to order the removal of every kettle from high-risk prisoners? Not in June, but now, today. This goes deeper than one review, men like Rudakubana and Abedi glorify violence, they dream of martyrdom, and, still, governors pander to them. “I couldn’t care less if Rudakubana never had a hot drink again, nor would the British public. This culture of appeasement, of protecting the rights of convicted terrorists and criminals over the safety of our officers must end, and it must end now. “
Well, the Tories were in power for how long, Robert? Eleven years, wasn’t it? Why didn’t they do something about it then ? Is it because they are just as beholden to the progressive outlook as Labour? Or was it in case any of the Afghans they were secretly foisting on us (and keeping it secret) turned out to be vicious criminals, per chance?
A female jail worker in Georgia has been fired and hit with a string of criminal charges after she was allegedly caught half-naked in her office with an inmate last month - but she insists she's the victim.
Oh oh! Did the US prison service fail to do due diligence on her Social media and miss glamour shots, as so many of ours have in the UK?
Frantz waived her first court appearance on Tuesday, and her bond was set at $30,000. Despite the accusations, Frantz's lawyer claims her client is the one who has been wronged. She was under duress, and she was threatened with her life actually to comply with the demand by the complaining witness,' assistant public defender Jae Kim said in court Tuesday, according to WSB-TV.'My client is the victim of the whole situation and yet she is falsely accused of those charges.'
Good luck with that defence!
A prison nurse is angry at being struck off from the profession for 'not showing kindness' after telling an offender to 'get up' when she felt he was feigning injury.
Julie Abram, 63, said she was also criticised for calling the 'young lad' a prisoner and not a patient following the drama at Hull prison and believes she was sacked because she refused to 'mollycoddle' the criminals.
Ecxcept she wasn't sacked - she jumped before she could be pushed:
She resigned after 22 years when told she faced disciplinary proceedings over the incident in 2021, when the prisoner tripped over a shoe in his cell on the sex offenders' wing in the category B jail.
She said she was stunned to learn this week that she had been banned from the nursing profession without her knowledge.
Probably wouldn't prevent her getting a job in your local hospital, where failing to show compassion is one of the Key Performance Indicators - if you're not a criminal, but just an ordinary taxpayer!
Its Fitness to Practise Committee was told she exhibited a 'discriminatory' attitude towards prisoners, which was a 'deep-seated attitudinal issue'.
Ms Abram said: 'It seems you have to tuck the prisoners up in bed these days.'
Jurors agreed it was the Brazilian’s insatiable drug habit that drove him to carry out the attack, and he alone was to blame and he was on Wednesday convicted of murder, three counts of attempted murder, possession of a sword, aggravated burglary and wounding with intent.
OK, maybe there's one:
Indeed, so reliant is Monzo on psychoactive substances that, despite the carnage he knows can be caused, he admitted smoking synthetic cannabinoid Spice while on remand in prison.
I should be surprised by this, but I’m not - are any of our institutions fit for purpose anymore?
H/T:
Her stint at HMP Styal women's prison in Cheshire was particularly noteworthy, with staff recalling how she would turn up in gold hot pants.
Whoops!
Pegg, a keen gym-goer inside jail, was seen as a “rising star” in the Prison Service, quickly climbing the career ladder from graduate entrant to prison governor in six years, along the way also having breast enhancement surgery.
I fear the biggest boobs here belonged to the Prison HR staff.
CJ Nerd via emailA prison officer caught kissing a drug dealer inmate who she 'picked' above all others has been spared jail. Disturbing bodyworn camera footage shows Tracy Boateng, 27, lean in multiple times as she makes the inappropriate contact with Vincent Ojo at HMP Pentonville.About the only time her name and 'lean' have probably ever featured in a sentence togather!
Boateng had admitted misconduct in a public office through engaging in an inappropriate relationship with Ojo between February 25 and April 19 last year. At Snaresbrook Crown Court today, the senior prison officer was handed a 12 month sentence, suspended for 24 months. Evidence against Boateng, who is from Dagenham (Ed: !!), included the bodyworn camera footage of the pair kissing and hugging, the court heard.
Yes, Reader, you read that right - she's so dim she elected to do this while wearing a body camera!
Sentencing, Judge Caroline English...
I don't recognise the name, but wonder if she was the woefully progressive female judge that presided over the second trial I served on?
...told her the 'exceptional' feature of the case was her three-month-old daughter and that Boateng had avoided prison because of the impact it could have on the young girl.
Can't help but feel the removal of such a parental influence could only be a good thing for the poor little mite...
...it's not illegal to have sex with a willing woman. So he hasn't actually broken any laws.
Victims of a prisoner who was filmed allegedly having sex with a female guard have slammed reports that he will not see further punishments, claiming 'this is not what we thought it meant to get hard time in prison'. Linton Weirich, 36, of West London, was seen in a clip filmed on a smuggled phone appearing to have sex with prison officer Linda De Sousa Abreu at HMP Wandsworth. The incident involving the prolific burglar, who is currently serving four years and nine months, led to police investigation with married De Sousa Abreu, 30, charged with misconduct in public office.Because she has committed a crime. And she is yet another case where a good perusal of her social media before hiring her would have been a good idea!
De Sousa Abreu, 30, who is married, appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court yesterday charged with misconduct in public office. The prison officer was arrested at Heathrow Airport on Saturday before she could catch a flight to see relatives in Madrid, a court heard yesterday. She was attempting to travel on a Portuguese passport, which was seized by the Metropolitan Police.
When will the Prison Service learn not to recruit foreigners with pouting 'glamour shots' all over their social media to be prison officers?
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A man previously involved in a high speed chase on a stolen motorbike along with a gun-toting thug will now face serious prison time for his role in leaving a hand grenade on a doorstep.
So, why was he ever let out?
The Ministry of Justice is now investigating why someone accused of such serious offences was not placed in a higher security prison, as experts furiously question why Khalife was not seen as more of a risk.
It's a good question indeed, isn't it?
A neighbour told The Daily Telegraph: 'A woman lived upstairs who had a son and daughter. The boy would come and go swearing loudly. She moved to Wales roughly three years ago – a year after we moved in.
'The family were British, of Middle Eastern origin. '
/facepalm
Long time readers may recall this story from 2011. Now there's a follow up:
An ex-policeman whose 16-year-old daughter was fatally stabbed through the skull by a teenager using a steel comb says he is horrified that she could be free in weeks.
Rebecca Douglas was aged just 15 when she was dubbed the 'afro comb killer' after brutally attacking rival Julie Sheriff, but now MailOnline has learned her case has been referred to the Parole Board.
Reader, you know you've been blogging for a long time when killers you commented on are up for review!
A spokesperson for The Parole Board said: 'The parole review of Rebecca Douglas has been referred to the Parole Board by the Secretary of State for Justice and is following standard processes.'
I'm sure it is. But isn't that the problem?
'Parole Board decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community.
'A panel will carefully examine a huge range of evidence, including details of the original crime, and any evidence of behaviour change, as well as explore the harm done and impact on the victims.'
Well, she won't have stabbed anyone else while behind bars, but isn't that more lack of opportunity..?
A transgender prison officer who was caught with £3,500-worth of heroin in the car park of a Midlands jail has escaped a jail sentence.
Why was there a transgender prison officer in the first place?
Prison bosses swooped in on Ollie Griffiths, 29, after a tip-off alleging he was smuggling in contraband for inmates at HMP Featherstone, Staffordshire. A court heard how multiple wraps of heroin were found in the footwell of his car, stuffed into a tube of Pringles crisps, on July 31.
Bang to rights! So how did she - for it is a she - escape with this?
He was sentenced to a 12-month community order with 100 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay £280 in costs.
Well, would you believe, CPS incompetence? Or laziness? Or desperately helping the Prison Service cover up their mistake in hiring this person?
Griffiths - formerly known as Holly Griffiths - was spared jail after prosecutors charged him with possession of drugs, and not the more serious charge of intent to supply.
Even the judge said 'WTAF, dude?':
Asked to explain the 'astonishing' decision by district judge Marcus Waite, Ms Fraser said that reviewing lawyers had told her to proceed on the lesser charge.
Gosh! I wish I could avoid awkward questions by saying 'big boys did it and ran away' when confronted...
Richard Davenport, defending, said: 'He is no longer employed in the prison service. He has left his parents' address.
'There have been various problems with the family because of his transitioning. He is living in shared accommodation and has got work as a chef.'
Great! Food preparation. That's safer, right?
A fruit picker accused of stabbing to death nine-year-old Lilia Valutyte has reportedly been rushed to hospital after being slashed and battered by a shank-wielding cellmate in a brutal prison attack.
But wait!
Skebas was under constant supervision following his return to prison.
*hollow laughter*
The wife of a man beaten so badly he was left brain damaged says she is a 'wreck' after it emerged one of his killers (sic) will walk free in weeks.Wait, surely not this case..? Well, Reader, yes. Of course.
...Furlong only received 20 months. Due to time already spent on remand, he is now set to be released within the next four weeks, despite only being sentenced in June.
It's a farce.
Mr Willson's wife Annie told ITV: 'Emotionally I am a wreck. I can't allow my feelings to be shown because I have children.
'Our whole life has been turned upside down. Everyone thinks justice has been done. But really coming out after two months, that's not justice.'
Everybody doesn't think justice has been done, Annie. Far from it.
And not just with the wretched excuse for a justice system we have in this country, either:
Alan now has hearing problems, dental problems, cannot go to the toilet by himself or take care of his personal hygiene.
The couple are struggling to get benefits or any compensation because Alan cannot even sign his own name.
Compare and contrast that with the resources of the state that will be offering help and assistance to this piece of excrement when he skips out of the prison doors, and you begin to wonder how a country can function like this for much longer...
The vile ringleader of the notorious Rochdale child sex grooming gang has been appointed ‘equalities representative’ at his maximum security jail.
Shabir Ahmed was handed the role in a move branded an ‘insult’ to his victims despite having attempted to blame his crimes on Western society for allowing young girls to ‘parade on the streets’.
I need a new tag, it's no longer 'You couldn't make it up', but 'You don't have to make it up'...
Sources said the role of equalities representative involved ‘collating’ views from inmates on the same wing and reporting back to prison staff.
Why are they soliciting grievances from these animals?
Whistleblower Maggie Oliver, who resigned as a detective over failings in how police handled grooming cases in Rochdale, said it was ‘an insult to victims’.
Just one of so very many lately.
A Prison Service spokesman said last night: ‘This role includes no safeguarding responsibilities and is intended to improve the behaviour of the prisoner.’
The only thing that would do that was, sadly, abolished in 1965. The year I was born. And look how safe and just that's made society...
