Prisoners housed in separation centres have been stopped from using kitchens following an attack by the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber, Sky News understands.
The Prison Officers Association (POA) said 28-year-old Hashem Abedi – the brother of Salman Abedi – threw hot cooking oil over the guards before stabbing them with homemade weapons on Saturday.
He was sentenced in 2020 to at least 55 years in prison after being found guilty of 22 counts of murder over the 2017 atrocity and is serving his sentence at category A Frankland prison, in County Durham.
The attack is said to have happened at a separation centre, a small unit sometimes referred to as a “prison within a prison”, usually used to house dangerous prisoners and those deemed a risk of radicalising other inmates.
After the attack, POA national chairman Mark Fairhurst called for “cooking facilities and items that can threaten the lives of staff” to be removed immediately.
It is understood that kitchen use in prison separation centres has now been suspended.
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