(BBC) An “extremely dangerous” inmate who carried out a string of attacks on prison officers with self-made plastic weapons has been sentenced.
Aklakar Rahman, 38, repeatedly attacked staff at HMS Swaleside in Kent and high-security Belmarsh jail, south-east London, in September and October 2022, the Old Bailey heard.
The court heard Rahman, who has schizophrenia, said he had been directed by voices to carry out the attacks.
On Friday, Mrs Justice McGowan handed him a hospital order without limit of time, telling Rahman that psychiatrists say “you are mentally unwell and need to be treated.”
The court heard on 23 September 2022, Rahman was detained in the high-security segregation unit at HMP Swaleside over concerns he was trying to “radicalise other inmates to extreme versions of Islam.”
