Eighteen prison officers hurt in Maghaberry Prison riot

LOYALIST prisoners in the North’s top security jail were locked in their cells last night after a riot during which 18 prison officers were injured and hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage was caused.

The riot happened when 35 loyalists went on the rampage in Maghaberry Prison outside Lisburn, Co Antrim, overnight.

During a 10-hour orgy of violence they smashed up snooker and table tennis tables to use as barricades.