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LONDON, Oct 23 (KUNA) -- A prisoner was appearing in court Tuesday charged
with an attack on a jailed Al-Qaida terrorist, police said.
The 22-year-old inmate is accused of assaulting Dhiren Barot, leader of a
British-based terrorist cell that plotted to murder thousands of people with
dirty bombs.
The unnamed prisoner faces charges of wounding and assault occasioning
actual bodily harm following the incident on July 6 this year.
He was appearing before North Durham Magistrates' Court, in northern
England.
Barot's lawyer has said the convicted terrorist had boiling oil thrown over
him during the attack in the high security Frankland Prison, in County Durham,
northern England.
After the incident, which left Barot, 35, scarred for life, a news blackout
was imposed to protect medical staff from possible attack while he was treated
at hospital.
Barot was sentenced to life, with a minimum term of 30 years, for planning
to plant radioactive, chemical or toxic gas bombs and pack limousines with
nails and explosives in the UK and America. (end)
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