Hitmen deliberately getting nicked to carry out attacks on rivals in prison

British street gang members have been deliberately getting themselves caught committing petty crimes just to get at rivals in prison, the Daily Star Sunday can reveal.

They are sending recruits into jails for the sole purpose of attacking “ops” – members of opposing crews.

The new tactic is partly behind a worrying surge in gang-related violence in some of Britain’s biggest and most secure facilities and driving a huge increase in serious assaults in prisons around the country.

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A South London drill gang member told our investigator: “Man’s getting jail just to catch ops. “They’ll get jail for small thefts, assaults, drug dealing – enough to go away for a few months.

“The main aim is to get into jail to get to ops," the added. "I know loads of kids inside now who’ve been sent in.”

Warden in London’s high-security Belmarsh jail are battling a surge in violence and a watchdog is calling for new efforts to keep rivals apart.

The Independent Monitoring Board for Belmarsh said there had been scores of clashes after “the arrival of a significant number of gang members”.

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Former guard George Shipton told the Daily Star that inmates once “might have thought twice because there’s a camera on them, but now don’t give a s**t. They’ll stab another gang leader and they don’t care.”

The threat of violence inside Britain’s prisons is ever-present.

Just this week it emerged that former Met Police officer David Carrick, who was handed 36 life sentences for “unspeakably evil” attacks on 12 women while in the force, has a “ bounty ” on his head and is expected to be under observation in an isolated cell 24/7 to keep him alive long enough to complete his 30-year jail sentence.

In court, Carrick's defence lawyer, Alisdair Williamson KC, said the serial rapist “accepts full responsibility for what he has done” and it was likely his jail sentence will bring him “close to… if not to … the close of his natural life".

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