Man charged with Manchester murder assaulted and robbed in prison footage
Lawrence Johnson, 26, who has been charged with murdering Alisha Samuels and attempting to murder another man, appears in footage to be threatened, hit and robbed by other inmates at HMP Walton. The Ministry of Justice said the incident was dealt with swiftly and that it is investigating how a phone was used to record and post the video.
Samuels, also 26, was found with stab wounds on Dorking Avenue in Manchester at about 2am on 15 October and died at the scene. Johnson and co-accused Carl Hardy and Tony Evans, both 19, have appeared in court and remain in custody; Samuels’s friends remembered her as kind and funny, while police have appealed for information.
In short
- A video appears to show charged murder suspect Lawrence Johnson being attacked in prison.
- The Ministry of Justice says the incident was swiftly dealt with.
- Johnson and two others remain in custody over Alisha Samuels’s death.
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Originally published by Daily Mail as “Man accused of murdering 26-year-old woman in the street is attacked and robbed behind bars”.