HMP Whitemoor: Men deny prison officer attempted murder

(BBC) Two men have denied the attempted murder of a prison officer at a high-security jail.

Brusthom Ziamani, 24, and Baz Hockton, 26, pleaded not guilty via video-link at the Old Bailey.

They are accused of donning fake suicide vests and using improvised weapons during an attack in January at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.

The pair pleaded guilty to an alternative charge of wounding the officer with intent.

But prosecutor Annabel Darlow QC said the guilty pleas were not acceptable to the crown.

She said there would need to be a trial on the attempted murder count, which the prosecution alleged had a terrorist connection.

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