One of Britain’s most dangerous inmates has been convicted of a string of attacks on prison officers with homemade plastic weapons. Aklakar Rahman, 38, had repeatedly attacked staff at HMS Swaleside in Kent and high-security Belmarsh jail, south London, in September and October 2022, the Old Bailey has heard.
He was already serving a life sentence for earlier prison attacks after being jailed for Class A drugs offences in 2015. During his latest trial, he made a series of admissions to the jury, and went on to admit five charges of attempted wounding. A jury deliberated for nine hours and 33 minutes to find him guilty of four more, serious alternative charges of attempted murder.
He also admitted six attempted assaults on emergency workers and three charges of possessing sharpened pieces of plastic in prison. At the time of the offences, the defendant was serving a life sentence for three earlier attempted murders and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, jurors heard.
In the summer of 2017, he attacked one inmate and two officers at HMP Wayland, HMP Lincoln and HMP Wakefield, using improvised weapons to stab at his victims’ heads and necks, the court was told. Rahman had originally been jailed two years before, in November 2015, and ordered to serve six years and four months for drugs offences.
