ONE of Britain’s most dangerous prison inmates has had four years added to his sentence after throwing boiling water into the face of a prison officer.

Former Dawlish patient Faisal Hassan left the warder with scarring on the surface of his eye which will require him to use eye drops for the rest of his life.

He was saved from more serious facial scarring by colleagues to doused him in water after the attack.

Hassan was at Exeter Prison in February last year serving a nine year term for an unprovoked attack on an inmate who he slashed with a makeshift knife at HMP Bristol in 2018.

He attacked three different prison officers at Exeter in the space of 30 days, stabbing one with a tin opener, scalding another with the boiling water, and punching the third as he was escorting him to his cell after a shower.

Hassan, aged 37, of HMP Parc, Wales, refused to attend his trial at Exeter Crown Court and a jury found him guilty in his absence of two assaults causing actual bodily harm and one of assaulting an emergency worker.

He also refused to attend his sentence today (wednesday) at which Judge Peter Johnson jailed him for four years with a one year extended licence and ruled that he posed a serious danger to the public.

He said a probation assessment showed he was a ‘highly dangerous man’ who posed a serious risk of harm to the public, fellow inmates and prison staff, probably by assaults using weapons.

He said a psychiatric report showed that Hassan, who has been treated at Langdon Hospital in Dawlish in the past, suffers from PTSD, paranoid delusions and a personality disorder.

The judge listed Hassan’s history of violence, which includes manslaughter, rape, robbery, drug dealing and attacks at three different prisons.

Mr Michael Brown, prosecuting, said the three attacks in Exeter happened on February 1 and 15 and March 2 last year.

He threw the water at one officer because he was angry about the choice of snacks he was offered for lunch. He had been brought the water so he could make a hot drink in his cell but flung it in the officer’s face as soon as it was handed to him.

The other two attacks took place at the servery and on a landing in the segregation unit.

Hassan sacked his defence team before his trial, which he did not attend, so no plea in mitigation was advanced.