Inmate taken hostage during jail riot

Prisoners took an inmate hostage, broke his arm and slashed his face, during a serious riot at the country’s remand prison yesterday.

Riot squad officers were confronted with 60 prisoners who refused to leave an exercise yard at Cloverhill Prison and forcibly removed 15 ringleaders, many armed with improvised weapons.

Separate, and unrelated, to this, the courts experienced “significant delays” of up to two hours after prison officers tasked with escorting inmates staged a “wildcat industrial action”.