For those banged up in Britain’s high-security prisons, the reminders that life hangs by the thinnest of threads keep coming.
Earlier this week, a court heard how murderer Donald Gaote-Oueyeya stabbed the neck of a fellow prisoner in HMP Frankland.
Fearing that his victim, an alleged gangland boss, had ‘put a price on his head’, the 26-year-old fashioned a blade from a piece of cutlery and launched an attack ‘without warning’.
It was only by chance that the inmate was not more seriously hurt. Gaote-Oueyeya, serving life for killing a teenage boy, was given a further four years in prison for the assault.
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