Dumbrell avoids extra jail time over death threat

A “notorious” murderer will not spend any extra time in prison for threatening to rip the head off a prison officer due to a legal anomaly.

Jeffrey Dumbrell, aged 35, who is serving a life sentence, was being held in a high security segregation unit at the time but has since moved to a wing with a number of other prisoners and hopes some day to re-join the general prison population.

He was sentenced to three and a half years for the threat yesterday. However because he is serving a life sentence, which is indeterminate, the new sentence will run concurrently.