Manchester Arena bomber Hashem Abedi has been moved to a high-security London prison after he threw oil at officers and launched a blade attack.
Abedi has been moved to HMP Belmarsh following the attack at a prison in County Durham. Abedi and his older brother Salman planned the Manchester Arena attack. Abedi was jailed for life with a minimum 55 years in prison after being convicted of murdering 22 people in the 2017 attack.
The BBC reported that he threw hot oil at officers in HMP Frankland and stabbed them with improvised blades on Saturday. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has said there will be a full, independent review into the incident.
Martin Hibbert, a survivor of the Manchester Arena attack, slammed authorities for allowing Abedi “comfort and privilege” of kitchen facilities and said he was furious the pain of survivors was being so “blatantly disrespected”.
Hibbert was paralysed from the waist down in the blast and his daughter Eve left severely disabled.
In an open letter to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood, Hibbert said: “Let’s call this what it is: a catastrophic failure of your duty to protect prison staff and the public from an unrepentant terrorist.
“Not only was Abedi allowed the freedom to move around and use facilities that should never be available to someone like him – he was able to track and target three prison guards using boiling oil and homemade weapons.
“I was led to believe that people like him – mass murderers, terrorists – would face a regime of strict control and zero comfort. I was told justice would be served.
“What I see now is not justice. It’s a shameful lack of accountability and basic prison security.”
