Warder's throat slashed

Tuesday 07 April 1998 23:02 BST

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Warder's throat slashed

A PRISON officer whose throat was slashed in a jail attack was "lucky to be alive", officials said yesterday on the eve of a crisis safety meeting with union leaders.

Jim Dawson, deputy secretary of the Scottish Prison Officers' Association, revealed the attack in Aberdeen's Craiginches Prison happened in an area without staff alarms. Mr Dawson said he now wants the Scottish Prison Service to capitulate to demands, first made over a year ago, that members be given personal alarms.

The unnamed prison officer is said to be "comfortable" in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after Monday's attack with a makeshift weapon fashioned out of two razor blades.

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