DOUSED IN BOILING OIL; Al Qaeda terrorist attacked convicted robber in jail

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), Oct 10, 2008

GUN raider Malcolm Cruddas today told how an al Qaeda terrorist attacked him in prison with boiling fat.

The 33-year-old suffered first degree burns when oil was poured over his head in Durham's Frankland Prison by Omar Khyam. Now home after a seven-year sentence, the 33-year-old father-of-two, said: "All I remember is being electrocuted. That's what it felt like." The attack followed one by another inmate on dirty bomb plotter Dhiren Barot.

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VICTIM: Malcolm Cruddas being treated in hospital after the incident; INSIDE PRISON: Omar Khyam left, and Malcolm Cruddas

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