Jailed terrorist ‘slashed across face in prison’
HMP MANCHESTER INVESTIGATES AFTER MAN WHO ENCOURAGED ISLAMIC ATTACKS IS ‘KNIFED’
PRISON bosses are investigating after a terrorist was reportedly slashed in the face in HMP Manchester.
Husnain Rashid was jailed this month after admitting to a string of terror offences – including encouraging attacks on the Trafford Centre and Prince George.
The 34-year-old, from Nelson, in Lancashire, was attacked in Strangeways prison on Wednesday, reports suggest.
A spokesman for the Prison Service confirmed that a prisoner was taken to hospital following an incident and that an investigation was underway.
They said in a statement: “A prisoner received hospital treatment for minor injuries following an incident at HMP Manchester on Wednesday, July 25. An investigation is taking place.”
Rasnid, who also used the highly encrypted communication app Telegram to post instructions on how to poison fruit in supermarkets with cyanide, was arrested following a raid on his home in November last year.
The Islamic State fanatic tried to flee police. He ran out of the back door and threw his mobile phone high into the air to avoid being found with it in his possession.
But it landed right at the feet of an officer who had surrounded the house and contained ‘a treasure trove’ of evidence, the court heard.
Mobile phones owned by Rashid were found to have text messages on them between him and the ISIS news agency, Amaq.
Speaking after the sentencing, Chief Sup Will Chatterton from Counter Terrorism Policing North West said: “Rashid was a prolific poster on Telegram, a messaging and media platform which prides itself on never having provided law enforcement agencies with any user data.
“Rashid had spent the past 18 months locked away in a bedroom of his parents’ house where he had made links with known ISIS members and spent hours making online posters and propaganda encouraging would-be terrorists to carry out the most gruesome attacks.
“Rashid was developing his magazine, called Lone Mujahid, which could be described as a sort of e-toolkit for would-be lone-wolf attackers. He is a prolific and dangerous individual.
“He has never been forthcoming with information about all of the attacks that he suggested, but we have worked closely with agencies across the world to share the intelligence that we have.
“We believe that Rashid was days away from travelling to Syria and are in no doubt that he would have continued to encourage others and promote his ideology.
“Rashid has been sentenced to life in prison and will spend at least the next 24 years behind bars.
He will no longer be able to spread hate and encourage senseless harm and killing. Today the world is just that little bit safer.”