(BBC) Prison staff guarding extremist offenders are under “constant threat” from inmates who intend to “behead a guard and stream it online,” the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) said.
Last week two men were convicted of trying to murder an officer at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.
POA chairman Mark Fairhurst said the threat posed had never been greater.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said measures had been stepped up to “stop the spread of poisonous ideologies.”
In January, Brusthom Ziamani, 25, and Baz Hockton, 26, armed with makeshift bladed weapons, tried to murder prison officer, Neil Trundle, at the maximum-security jail.
