Extremist ‘tried to murder prison officer after asking for a spoon’

An Islamic extremist tried to murder a prison officer at a maximum security prison to achieve martyrdom while serving jail time for a terrorist offence, a court heard. Brusthom Ziamani, 25, and fellow inmate Baz Hockton, 26, allegedly screamed: ‘Allahu Akbar’ and wore hoax suicide vests during the attack at HMP Whitemoor, Cambridgeshire, on January 9. They ‘lured’ prison officer (PO) Neil Trundle into a cupboard area by asking him to fetch them a spoon before setting upon him with…