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.
Explained simply
Alisha Samuels, 26, died after being found with stab wounds in Manchester in October. Lawrence Johnson, also 26, and two other men have been charged in connection with her death and with an alleged attempted murder; the charges have yet to be determined by a court.
The case involves both the criminal proceedings and conditions inside HMP Walton, where people held on remand are kept while their cases progress. Phones are not allowed in prison, and the Ministry of Justice says it is investigating how one was used to record and share footage of an assault on Johnson.
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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”.