Dangerous inmate convicted for trying to kill prison officials with ‘stabs’

Aklakar Rahman, 38, had repeatedly attacked the HMS Swaleside staff in Kent and Belmarsh’s high security prison, south London, in September and October 2022, as Old Bailey has heard.

I was already fulfilling life imprisonment for prison attacks after being imprisoned for class A drug crimes in 2015.

During his last judgment, he made a series of confessions before the jury and came to admit five positions of attempt to hurt.

A jury deliberated for nine hours and 33 minutes to declare it guilty of four serious alternative positions more than murder attempt.

He also admitted six attempts to aggression to emergency workers and three positions of possession of sharp plastic pieces in prison.

At the time of crimes, the defendant fulfilled life imprisonment for three previous murder attempts and for hurting with the intention of causing serious bodily damage, as the jury heard.

In the summer of 2017, he attacked an inmate and two officers at HMP Wayland, HMP Lincoln and HMP Wakefield, using makeshift weapons to stab the heads and neck of his victims, he told the court.

Rahman had originally been imprisoned two years before, in November 2015, and he had been ordered to turn six years and four months in prison for drug crimes.

He had declared himself guilty before the Ipswich Crown Court of two positions of possession of class A drugs, heroin and cocaine, with the intention of supplying them, and a charge of being involved in the supply of heroin.

In his last trial, prosecutor Alistair Richardson had said that Rahman was a “very dangerous man.”

He had repeatedly expressed his desire to kill prison officials, whom he considered “Kuffar”, a derogatory term to designate non -Muslims.

On September 23, 2022, the defendant had been arrested in the high security segregation unit at HMP Swaleside for fear that he was trying to radicalize other inmates to “extreme versions of Islam,” he told the court.

While escorting him at a shower, he hit an officer and stabbed another on his forehead with a pen, as the court heard.

Then he hit a third officer in the stomach and trampled the foot of a room after they went to help his colleagues.

During an attempt to recover a homemade weapon, the defendant tried to stab an officer in the neck, according to the jurors.

After being transferred to Belmarsh’s high security prison, he tried to kill three prison officials on October 23, 2022, he was told to the court.

He stabbed one of them in the head and neck, and cut the neck of two more agents amid attempts to hold it.

When he ordered him to open his hand, he saw the accused with the bottom of a sharp plastic spoon, the court heard.

Judge McGowan postponed the sentence until March 28.