Burwell pub attacker has life sentence extended after stabbing prison officer with pen and throwing faeces

A prison inmate has had his life sentence extended after stabbing a prison officer with a pen and throwing faeces over another.

Jason Jones, 41, was sentenced to life imprisonment for attacking three people at The Fox pub in Burwell in 2021. He pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted murder and was imprisoned in HMP Whitemoor in December 2022.

At about 3.20pm on 15 October, 2023, officers were unlocking Jones’ cell to let him out for a phone call when he threw a peanut butter jar full of faeces over one of them.

Five months later on 17 March 2024, officers were serving Jones dinner and opened his cell door. Jones lunged at them and stabbed one with a pen in the jaw and neck. The officer required hospital treatment for minor injuries.

On Friday (11 April), at Cambridge Crown Court, Jones, now of HMP Frankland, Durham, received 45 months on top of his 24-year minimum sentence.

He had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to assault by beating of an emergency worker and grievous bodily harm with intent.

Det Con Emma Purser said: “Jones is clearly a dangerous person and continues to show it with these two unprovoked attacks on prison officers just trying to do their jobs.

“As well as the physical injuries resulting from attacks like these, they can also cause serious psychological trauma.”