Friday, December 19, 2025
An inmate who attacked a prison officer on the wing at a Lancashire jail, has been given a further term of imprisonment on top of the sentence he is already serving.
Christopher Stubbs, who is serving a life sentence for murder, hit the officer several times with a self-made hook shank moments after morning unlock at Garth Prison, Ulnes Walton, near Leyland.
The prison officer, a man in his 50s, suffered three deep puncture wounds to his torso and abdomen from the shank, and was also subjected to blows to the head during the attack.
It took several prison officers to restrain and subdue Stubbs (pictured right on CCTV shortly before the attack), with him continuing to hit out and he also bit another officer.
The attack happened on 14th July 2024 Stubbs’ cell having been unlocked by another officer.
Stubbs was seen to burst out of his cell in an agitated state and go towards the other end of the wing, producing the weapon (pictured below) from his waistband and quickly launching the attack.
At Preston Crown Court yesterday (18th December), a jury found Stubbs guilty of Section 18 wounding with intent to cause grievous harm, assault on an emergency worker, and possession of a sharply pointed article inside a prison, following a three-day trial.
Stubbs, 30, formerly from Teesside, was given a 12-year prison sentence – consisting of 11-and-a-half years for the Section 18 wounding and six months consecutive for biting the other prison officer. He was given a concurrent 12 months for possession of the sharply pointed article.
The 12-year sentence will run consecutively to the 24-year tariff of the life sentence he was given at Teesside Crown Court for murder in 2016.
Stubbs refused to leave the court cells for sentence, with the judge sentencing him in his absence.
