A man who badly abused his own baby son has been battered half to death by fellow inmates who took him hostage.
Tony Smith, who tortured his weeks-old son so badly his legs had to be amputated, was given a beating by two inmates at Swaleside Prison on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.
They are said to have pounced on him before tying him to a chair and battering him with an improvised cosh made from cans of tuna inside a sock as well as metal bars.
Smith suffered a fractured eye socket, broken ribs and a broken jaw.
A jail insider told the Daily Star:
“The inmates were wrongly housed in the vulnerable prisoner B wing.
“They came into contact with Smith and held him hostage in his own cell for four hours.
“During that time they tied him to a chair and attacked him with a sock filled with tuna cans and metal bars. They also stamped all over him.
“Prison guards managed to get them off in the nick of time – he’s lucky he didn’t die. The men are now in segregation pending an investigation as to how this happened.”
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