He used an improvised weapon incorporating a razor blade
A vicious thug who slashed an officer's throat in a Northamptonshire prison has been handed a life sentence. The attack happened late on the morning on Saturday, February 8 2020 as the victim tidied up balls from a pool table after a period of recreation for the prisoners.
"It has totally knocked me. I didn’t realise how much, but when I drive to and from work now I have times during my commute that I feel as though I can’t breathe.” After the sentencing, lead investigator Detective Sergeant Sarah Moore, of the East Midlands Special Operations Unit's regional prisons intelligence section, said: “I am really pleased to see Joshua Kendall handed a significant sentence for these exceptionally serious assaults, ones that could have had fatal consequences.