Four men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after an inmate of Wormwood Scrubs prison was stabbed to death, police have said.
Metropolitan police were called to the prison in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, at about 3.19pm on Wednesday after reports of a stabbing.
A man, later named by Scotland Yard as 25-year-old Khader Saleh, was found with stab wounds and pronounced dead at the scene, despite efforts by paramedics to save him. A murder investigation was launched and inquiries are continuing. Next of kin have been informed.
Four men aged 20 to 23, all inmates at the prison, were arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in police custody.
The fatal stabbing follows a recent decision to draft extra patrol dogs, body-worn cameras and CCTV into Wormwood Scrubs because of the high levels of serious violence, with more than 90 attacks on staff within six months.
There were three murders of inmates in England and Wales in 2017 as violence inside prisons reaches levels not seen for 25 years.
The latest incident comes after a decision by the chief inspector of prisons two weeks ago to issue the first ever “urgent notification” demanding the justice secretary, David Gauke, intervene at Nottingham prison, which inspectors had found to be “fundamentally unsafe”.
