HMP Whitemoor prison officer attack: Inmates in court

(BBC) Two inmates accused of donning fake suicide vests and attacking a prison officer have appeared in court.

HMP Whitemoor prisoners Brusthom Ziamani, 24, and Baz Macaulay Hockton, 26, are accused of attempted murder and assault.

An officer at the high-security jail in March, Cambridgeshire, suffered stab wounds to his head, chest and face on 9 January.

The two men will next appear at the Old Bailey on 8 April.

Westminster Magistrates’ Court was told the pair managed to isolate prison officer Neil Trundle by asking him to bring a spoon to a segregation area of the prison.

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