Overview
- Tabloid reports citing unnamed sources say Jack Renshaw was cut across the face with a makeshift weapon outside his cell on December 9 at HMP Wakefield.
- The sources describe a “vicious” assault that left Renshaw disfigured and claim officers intervened after “blood everywhere,” with no official confirmation published in the articles.
- One report says rapist Ian Ochieng, 32, is being looked at by investigators in connection with the incident, though authorities have not publicly identified a suspect.
- Renshaw is serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 20 years for preparing a 2017 plot to murder Labour MP Rosie Cooper, and he was previously jailed in 2018 for grooming offences.
- HMP Wakefield has faced heightened safety concerns following a September inspectorate warning and the October killing of inmate Ian Watkins, for which two prisoners have been charged.