Prison reopens unit where Manchester Arena terror plotter Hashem Abedi stabbed & scalded three guards
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A PRISON has reopened a unit where Manchester Arena terror plotter Hashem Abedi stabbed and scalded three guards.
Extremists held in HMP Frankland's separation centre will in future face a tougher regime and be barred from using the kitchen, sources say.
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Manchester Arena terror plotter Hashem Abedi stabbed and scalded three guards
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Extremists held in HMP Frankland's separation centre will in future face a tougher regime
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Abedi, 28 — serving 55 years for helping brother Salman plan the 2017 bomb attack which killed 22 — used boiled butter and two 12in knives made from baking trays to attack the officers.
All three suffered 'life-threatening' injuries on May 12 and are unlikely to return to work, it is understood.
The Co Durham jail horror saw ministers order a review into separation centres.
A source said of the 'prison within a prison' unit: 'Huge mistakes were made before Abedi's attack and hard lessons learned.
"In future, the regime will be tougher and there will be fewer inmates.'
Of the injured staff, he said: 'All know they could have died.
"None of the three look like they will return.'
The Prison Service confirmed Frankland's separation centre was 'fully staffed and stopping the most dangerous offenders from radicalising others'.
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