Finsbury Park UK mosque attacker Darren Osborne stabbed in prison
The man who drove his van into worshippers outside a North London mosques has been attacked with a knife in prison, according to reports.
Darren Osborne, now 53, killed a man and injured 12 more in his 2017 attack at Finsbury Park mosque. The murderer is now behind bars for a minimum of 43 years, serving out his sentence in HMP Frankland in County Durham.
He’s now reported to have been ‘slashed’ in prison, ‘cut from forehead to chin’, a source told The Sun. The paper added that the source believed the attack to have been done in ‘revenge’ by a Muslim man also in prison, though the motive is unconfirmed.
The source added that Osbourne is lucky not to have been hurt more than he was.
He’s said to have been attacked before in a prison in York, and in another in Wakefield, when boiling water was reportedly thrown at him.
The police confirmed to The Sun that there had been a prisoner-on-prisoner attack, with ‘minor injuries’ suffered.
MyLondon has asked the prison service for further comment.
Osborne, 48 at the time of sentencing, was sentenced to life imprisonment after he deliberately mowed down worshippers outside two mosques in Finsbury Park on June 19, 2017, killing one and injuring 12 others.
Osborne, who denied charges of murder and attempted murder, was sentenced to a minimum 43-year term at Woolwich Crown Court.
