Nigerian Islamic extremist, Michael Adebolajo now regarded as Britain's most dangerous prisoner
Michael
Adebolajo, a Nigerian Islamic extremist who murdered British soldier
Fusilier Lee Rigley in London, is now regarded as the most dangerous
prisoner in the British penal system, officials say.
The
31-year-old who is being jailed at the HMP Frankland in County Durham, a
Category A prison, was described by a prison officer as “violent,
unpredictable and a major danger to other prisoners”.
According
to Prison sources, the real threat he poses is his ability to
radicalise other inmates as Dozens of prisoners are said to have fallen
for Adebolajo’s twisted version of Islam and have vowed to become
Jihadis when they are eventually freed.
It's
also understood that even non-Muslim prisoners are said to have
converted to Islam and sworn an allegiance to Islamic State after being
radicalised by the murderer.
One prison
official said: “Adebolajo spends most of his waking hours preaching his
distorted form of Islam to anyone who will listen. He sees every inmate
as a potential Islamic State soldier whether they are Muslims or not.
"He
has a big personality and is very charismatic and some of the more
vulnerable prisoners will fall under his spell. He is a very dangerous
individual.”
The source said Adebolajo has
taken up the role upon himself to recruit as many Jihadis as possible
for the remainder of his life and has been given “special category”
status because of the danger he represents.
The
shocking details of the threat posed by one of the UK’s most notorious
killers emerged just weeks after 33 people were killed and more than 100
injured in terrorist attacks in Manchester and London.
The source added: “If he is suspected of trying to radicalise other inmates we step in and move him.
"But even in prison Adebolajo cannot be watched all the time. We don’t have the staff or the resources.”
The
report also revealed that keeping the terrorist killer confined in HMP
Frankland, one of Britain’s most notorious prisons cost the taxpayer an
estimated £1500 a week or £78,000 a year.
Adebolajo
and his accomplice Michael Adebowale hacked 25-year-old Fusilier Lee
Rigby near his barracks in Woolwich Barracks, South East London in
2013. The two terrorists mowed him down in a car before hacking him
with knives and a cleaver.
The men dragged the
soldier’s body into the road and told passers-by that they had killed a
soldier to avenge the killing of Muslims by the British armed forces.
Adebolajo and Adebowale remained at the scene until police arrived and arrested them.
They
both men received life sentences. Adebolajo was given a whole-life
order excluding the possibility of parole, and Adebowale, was given a
minimum term of 45 years in prison.
Source: Mirror UK
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