I’ve paid lags £1,500 to stop jail attacks on son
MUM’S PRISON VIOLENCE NIGHTMARE
INMATES have extorted more than £1,500 from a prisoner’s family as the anarchy gripping UK jails continues to spiral.
The 26-year-old convict’s mother says she paid up to £100 a time after repeated threats to maim and kill her son.
She said: “He has been stabbed and hospitalised because of an eye injury.
“I’ve had calls from mobile phones smuggled inside. They’ve all got them and they’re using them to blackmail us.”
The prisoner, who we are not naming to avoid putting him further at risk, is serving four years at HMP Featherstone, a Category C prison in Staffordshire. He had no previous convictions but was jailed in May last year for inciting fear of violence after he used a BB airgun to protect his girlfriend and daughter from an intruder. His mum said: “When the beatings started we got assurances he would be protected but it hasn’t stopped.
“We get phone calls asking for cash or bank transfers but the beatings still go on.
“We visited him last week and he had a black eye. We heard he will be going into hospital again for damage to his eye socket. ” The mother’s shocking revelation follows a series of Sunday People i nvestigations i nto anarchy and violence across Britain’s prisons, including widespread use of illegal phones for criminal activity. Staffordshire Police have l aunched an investigation into the SOME may beef about it but when the chips were down there was only one place 16st Louise Shapton would have her reception after marrying her Joe.
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The couple eat there at least three blackmail complaint at HMP Featherstone. Local MP and Business Minister Sajid Javid has also been in touch with the family and is trying to help.
A Prison Service spokesman said: “Police are investigating an assault at HMP Featherstone and we have taken action against the offender involved.
“We take allegations of this nature incredibly seriously and the safety of those in our custody is a top priority.”
Staffordshire Police said they are investigating both the assault and “unusual monetary transactions”. times a week but size 20 Louise insists her diet is not linked to her inability to shed weight for the £6,000 NHS op to treat her type 2 diabetes.
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