Kiaran 'Psycho' Stapleton, the man convicted of murdering Indian student Anuj Bidve took his prison chaplain hostage briefly, days after his appeal against a life sentence failed. Stapleton, 21, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 23-year-old Bidve in Salford on 26 December last year. He was ordered to serve a minimum of 30 years before he is even eligible for parole. Last week Stapleton lured in the chaplain by saying he wanted to speak privately to come to terms with his appeal being thrown out.
But once they were alone he pulled a homemade weapon on the vicar, who managed to bring in help by pressing his panic button.
A team of guards then wrestled Stapleton to the ground and disarmed him, while the chaplain escaped unharmed in an attack.
‘On 30 November, a Full Sutton prisoner attempted to assault a member of the chaplaincy during worship. The police have been notified,’ a Prison Service spokesperson was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying.
At one point during his trial, Stapleton boasted that he did not care if he was locked up for 65 years because he enjoyed watching soaps in prison.
In October Stapleton pleaded to have his jail term reduced, despite saying he whiles away his days in ‘the best cell on the wing’ waiting for his favourite soaps to begin while stuffing himself with sweets.
But once they were alone he pulled a homemade weapon on the vicar, who managed to bring in help by pressing his panic button.
A team of guards then wrestled Stapleton to the ground and disarmed him, while the chaplain escaped unharmed in an attack.
‘On 30 November, a Full Sutton prisoner attempted to assault a member of the chaplaincy during worship. The police have been notified,’ a Prison Service spokesperson was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying.
At one point during his trial, Stapleton boasted that he did not care if he was locked up for 65 years because he enjoyed watching soaps in prison.
In October Stapleton pleaded to have his jail term reduced, despite saying he whiles away his days in ‘the best cell on the wing’ waiting for his favourite soaps to begin while stuffing himself with sweets.