STAFFING levels at an open prison which saw just two officers and four support staff in charge of 500 inmates on the night of an “unprecedented” riot will be reviewed, British prisons minister Crispin Blunt said yesterday.

Staffing levels at an English open prison which saw just two officers and four support staff in charge of 500 inmates on the night of an “unprecedented” riot will be reviewed, British prisons minister Crispin Blunt said today.

A riot at an English prison was triggered after some prisoners refused to be breathalysed for alcohol, according to Mark Freeman, deputy general secretary of the UK Prison Officers Association.

FORENSIC teams yesterday examined the house of a man arrested in connection with the hunt for the infamous Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer Wearside Jack.

DISGRACED former MI5 officer David Shayler claimed yesterday that he was told an IRA informer who alleged Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness told him he fired the first shot on Bloody Sunday was a “bullshitter”.

Disgraced former MI5 officer David Shayler claimed today he was told that an IRA informer who alleged Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness told him he fired the first shot on Bloody Sunday was a “bullshitter”.