Woman gets eight years for prison attack

A woman who seriously injured a fellow prison inmate by cutting her face with a disposable razor blade has been jailed for eight years.

Jade Mason, 39, was on remand at HMP Peterborough, when she carried out the attack on 9 April last year.

The unprovoked attack left the 36-year-old woman with a 10cm gash on her face, leaving her needing hospital treatment.

Mason, of Eastfield Road, Eastfield, Peterborough, was in prison for a threat to damage a petrol station, theft from Sainsbury’s in Oxney Road, Peterborough, and assaulting a security guard.

On Tuesday (6 May), she was jailed for eight years at Cambridge Crown Court after pleading guilty to causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent.

She was sentenced to a further 15 months after admitting assault occasioning actual bodily harm in relation to another prison attack in October of last year when she threw a cup of boiling water with sugar on a fellow inmate, and one month for each of the five thefts she committed across Peterborough between 2 May and 21 May last year, which she also admitted, all to run concurrently.

Detective Constable Kevin Poole, who investigated, said: “Mason carried out her attack with the clear intention of causing serious harm.

“Violent behaviour like this inexcusable and has no doubt significantly impacted the victims, so I hope this sentence provides them with some reassurance.”