He said: 'We got hold of the lad who was breathing very very badly. Hancox remembered one inmate in particular, who was just in his underwear, and how his team quickly set up a number shields so that they could enter the building safely without getting hit by slate and bricks that the rioters were chucking from the roof. Peter Hancox who was a prison officer at Strangeways at the time led a group of officers into the building in an attempt to rescue vulnerable inmates. Meanwhile, prison officer Alan Hall, right, said he felt prisoners wanted to kill him and his colleagues at the timeĪs he went down he hit some of the other railings before landing on a safety net 'and then the prisoners ran down and dragged him back up and did it again.' Meanwhile, prison officers Alan Hall and Dave Taylor recalled how prisoners wanted to 'kill ' and their frustrations at headquarters orders to stand back and let the rioting inmates take over the prison on the first day of the confrontations.Īlan Lord, left, was one of the inmates leading the riots. A new Channel 5 documentary sheds light on the Strangeways Prison Riot of 1990, through shocking testimonies from the prison staff and prisoners who lived through the 25-day siege.Īiring at 9pm tonight, Strangeways Riot: 25 Days of Mayhem gives an hour by hour account of how 1,100 Manchester inmates took over their prison on 1 April 1990, leaving 147 prison officers and 47 injured, one prisoner dead, and damage of more than £55 million.Īt the time, the prison held 1,647 prisoners, and speaking in the documentary, former Hospital Prison Officer Maggie Jones remembered that the staff's 'first thought was to get the sex offenders out' because they risked being beaten up by other prisoners.įormer Strangeways inmate John Murray recalled how he was left fearing for his life when a fire broke out during the first day of the riots.
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