Overview
- Multiple outlets report that Vickrum Digwa is refusing to move from segregation to A-wing at HMP Frankland because he fears he could be attacked after the fatal assault on Ian Huntley.
- Sources say Digwa is spending up to 23 hours a day isolated in his cell, leaving only under close escort for a short exercise period and having normal privileges, such as television, removed.
- Digwa was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years in May and is appealing the sentence on grounds it is unduly lenient.
- He was moved to Frankland from HMP Winchester; the prison’s history of housing high-profile offenders has intensified concerns about his safety and influenced his refusal to integrate.
- The reporting relies on unnamed prison insiders and the Prison Service has declined to comment on individual prisoners while the case and custody arrangements continue to attract institutional scrutiny.