44 years for jailhouse jihadis

An Islamic extremist who tried to murder a prison guard while serving time for plotting to behead a soldier was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 21 years. Brusthom Ziamani, 25, and Muslim convert Baz Hockton, 26, screamed: ‘Allahu Akbar’ and wore hoax bomb vests as they set upon Neil Trundle with a shank on January 9. They lured the officer into a cupboard space off-limits to prisoners at maximum-security HMP Whitemoor by asking him to fetch them…

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