A survivor of the Manchester Arena bombing has hit out at Hashem Abedi’s attack on three prison officers at HMP Frankland, branding the incident “unbelievable”.
Abedi, brother of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi, threw boiling cooking oil over the officers and used homemade weapons to stab them, according to the Prison Officers’ Association.
One woman and two men were injured in the incident, which is now under investigation. The female officer has since been discharged from hospital, while the two male officers remain hospitalised with serious injuries.
The Prison Officers’ Association described the injuries as life-threatening, with the victims suffering burns, scalds and stab wounds.
Manchester Arena bombing survivor Jade Clough has expressed her fury after Hashem Abedi attacked officers in HMP Frankland
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Discussing Abedi’s attack, Manchester Arena survivor Jade Clough expressed her fury at his ability and “freedom” to carry out such an attack, branding him “evil to the core”.
Clough fumed: “It’s unbelievable. It’s just unbelievable that you can commit these crimes and then go to trial, get found guilty of all these murders, go to prison, attack someone a couple of years ago and still be able to have the freedom and the privileges to do it again, to continue to hurt people. It’s unbelievable.
“He shouldn’t be able to just go into a prison and make friends that potentially rile each other up.”
Expressing how she feels about his current placement in the prison, Clough argued that Abedi should be in “solitary confinement” to prevent such an attack from happening again.
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Officers at HMP Frankland were left with life-threatening injuries including burns, scalds and stab wounds
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Clough told GB News: “He should be in some sort of solitary confinement where he’s not got access to anyone or anything, at the very least. He keeps on over and over again proving his true colours, keeps on hurting people, he is obviously evil to the core.
“He shouldn’t be allowed to have any kind of privileges. He stole other people’s human rights, why should he be allowed any?”
Recalling the tragic night of the Manchester Arena bombing, where Clough was caught up in the tragedy and survived, she told host Patrick Christys of how she “couldn’t comprehend” what had happened after witnessing the explosion.
Clough explained: “Everyone was buzzing and happy, there was kids running around, and then we went into the foyer and all of a sudden everything just went white and then orange, and you just flew, you just felt this force against you and you had no idea what was going on.
Clough told GB News that Abedi should be in ‘absolute’ solitary confinement
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“For a minute I couldn’t comprehend that it had come from inside the same room. I didn’t even realise that I was quite badly injured until I got outside, until my nephew carried me out. I thought it might have been a nuclear thing – it was horrendous.”
Concluding her thoughts on Abedi, Clough stated that it is “beggars belief” that he was not placed in solitary confinement after his first attack in the prison, and questioned whether an officer or fellow prisoner has to “be killed” before that decision is made.
She said: “In this country as it is now, we do have prisoners in this country that are in absolute solitary confinement. Why is he not there as well? It’s doable.
“It’s something that happens in this country on extreme occasions – this is an extreme occasion. How many prison guards does he have to hurt? Does he have to kill someone? It’s beggars belief.”