Inmate beat up female prison officer ‘for being racist’
A man serving a four-year sentence for wounding carried out a violent attack on a female prison officer who he thought was a racist. Louis Elue, a prisoner at HMP Stocken near Oakham, attacked the woman from behind as she was speaking to another prisoner.
He punched her about 10 times to the face and head, grabbed her hair and pulled her to the floor and then kicked at her head, making contact with her arms as she tried to defend herself. Another prisoner pulled Alue away from the woman but he got free after threatening the other man.
Alue then punched the officer several more times to face, bruising her eye socket and dislocating her nose before other officers arrived to restrain him. Afterwards he said he felt the woman was racist because she had recently chosen a white inmate over an Asian inmate for a prison job.
At Leicester Crown Court[2] on Thursday Alue, 27, was sentenced, having previously pleaded guilty to actual bodily harm. Recorder William Webb, sentencing Alue for the attack on December 13 last year, told him it was an “unprovoked and vicious attack” and that the woman’s injuries were at the top end of the scale for actual bodily harm.
Edward McKiernan, representing Alue, urged the judge not to make Alue’s jail term any longer than it already is. He said his client was currently looking a potential release date in June 2024.
But Recorder Webb told him: “I don’t feel able to do that after what is a violent assault.” Alue was given a 20-month jail sentence, which will begin after he’s served half of his current four-year sentence, meaning his earliest possible release date will be 10 months later in about spring 2025.
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- ^ Leicester Crown Court (www.leicestermercury.co.uk)