Probably prison officials in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain are too afraid of being called “Islamophobic” to enforce the restrictions on this chap.
“Jailed terrorist mocks life sentence on FACEBOOK: Muslim-convert extremist serving 19 years for stabbing prison guard jokes about life in Strangeways despite social media and internet ban,” by Jamie Phillips, MailOnline, December 19, 2021:
A Muslim-convert extremist serving a life sentence for stabbing a prison officer at a high security jail mocked and joked about his sentence on Facebook despite a social media and internet ban.
Baz Hockton was one of two terrorists who ‘savagely’ attacked an officer with makeshift ‘shanks’ while wearing fake suicide belts and shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ at HMP Whitemoor, Cambridgeshire, on January 9 last year.
Already serving a 12-year sentence for a separate stabbing attack, Hockton was radicalised in prison after befriending Brusthom Ziamani – a convicted terrorist who planned to behead a soldier in 2014 inspired by the murder of Lee Rigby.
Hockton was sentenced to life imprisonment in October 2020, but has been posting on Facebook mocking his prison sentence from inside HMP Strangeways in Manchester, despite a ban on phones and internet access, The Sunday Telegraph reports.
In one post, he said ‘Strangeway living 2021’ along with a picture of him bearded and smiling with a shaven-headed in a tracksuit top and bottoms.
The post received comments including ‘you look like a terrorist Baz, get a shave mun [sic]’ and ‘Bazzie, you looking well Boom Boom xxx’.
Hockton and Ziamani lured Prison Officer Neil Trundle into a cupboard space off-limits to prisoners at HMP Whitemoor by asking him to fetch them a spoon before attacking him with makeshift weapons.
Both inmates were found in possession of Islamic extremist writings when their cells were searched after the brutal murder bid.
Material was also recovered from Hockton’s cell setting out his desire to become a martyr.
Weeks before the attempted murder, an image was uploaded to the Facebook site boasting of how he would be leaving prison.
It said: ‘2026 Soon Home. Whitemoor living.’
Despite the posts, a Facebook site in his name was still live last week.
A post said: ‘Inbox me all your details and I will send you some Xmas money, bro.’…
DavidR says
At it’s roots Islam is more of a tribe than a religion and at their roots modern day gangs and gangsters are just tribes and tribesmen. So prison and Islam go well together. This ticking time bomb was in the right place at the right time. I suspect he was driven to this by childhood mockery over his name, i.e. Baz the Spaz.
gravenimage says
Most men in the West who convert to Islam do so in prison serving time for a violent crime.
mortimer says
Jihadists are not vigilantly excluded from the internet, but those who criticize the jihadists are excluded quickly.
gravenimage says
All too true, Mortimer.
gravenimage says
UK: Muslim who stabbed cop while screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ jokes on Facebook despite Internet ban
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The prison is not enforcing its internet ban on would-be murderers, and it seems that Facebook is fine with this, too. *Deeply disturbing.
And sionce when has 19 years been a “life sentence” (for which he will likely serve onlly a portion, as well)? Unfortunately this murderous thug is not wrong in his mocking the British justice system. *Ugh*.
OLD GUY says
Just another example of government and societies stupidity, why is this man or any prisoner allowed to access a computer or even yet the internet? Prison should not be an upgrade in your lifestyle or a place where you have basically a sports club with gym equipment or have your wife come in for a conjugal visit, and have TV, and Telephones etc. Maybe if we made going to prison punishment, criminals maybe would think twice before they commit a crime.
unbeliever1 says
Too many privileges and not enough deprivation. The only thing criminals don’t have legal access to are the keys to the joint.