A Moroccan asylum seeker, serving life for the murder of a Hartlepool pensioner, has been charged with attempted murder and assault of prison officers.
Counter terrorism policing have confirmed that Ahmed Ali Alid has been charged with attempted murder, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon.
The incidents occurred at HMP Full Sutton on August 8, last year and at HMP Wakefield just over two months later.
47-year-old was convicted of the murder of 70 year old Terence Carney in a Hartlepool Street in October 2024.
Ahmed Ali Alid will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court tomorrow.
Alid was jailed for life in 2024 after he stabbed a stranger to death in an attack described by a judge as a terrorist act.
Prior to the killing, he roamed the streets in Hartlepool seeking a victim to attack in “revenge” for the Israel-Hamas conflict in October 2023.
He killed Mr Carney by stabbing him multiple times.
Sentencing Alid for life, the judge said the killer had “hoped to frighten the British people and undermine the freedoms they enjoy”.
He was also found guilty of the attempted murder of his housemate, Javed Nouri.
Alid was described as a follower of an extreme version of Islam by prosecutors.
He had told police the attacks were in protest against the Israel and Gaza conflict.
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The killer spoke through an Arabic interpreter throughout the trial and had admitted stabbing the two men but denied any intention to kill or cause serious harm.
The judge, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, said: "The murder of Terence Carney was a terrorist act in which you hoped to influence the British government.
"You intended it as revenge for the actions of a foreign country, Israel, and to intimidate and influence the British government in its international relations.
"You hoped to frighten the British people and undermine the freedoms they enjoy."