Crossbow Cannibal Stephen Griffiths is crushed in behind bars bust-up with different prisoners
Cannibal serial killer Stephen Griffiths has been left bruised after a prison bust-up with other inmates.
The 54-year-old who was handed a life sentence after he killed three women working in the red light district in Bradford was involved in the fight on Valentine’s Day.
The monster, who dismembered and ate some of the body parts of his victims, was attacked after allegedly snapping at another inmate at the high-security prison, HMP Sutton.
After the altercation, he is now said to be ‘too scared to leave his cell’.
A source has told The Sun: ‘He was going around saying he wanted to kill someone.
‘He started talking to another lag in his cell and all of a sudden tried to attack him.
‘It turned into a fistfight. There were no weapons – the other inmate got the better of him and he was screaming ‘get off’.’
The Bradford criminology student, who told police he was studying for a PhD in homicide, killed 43-year-old Susan Rushworth, who disappeared in June 2009, followed by 31-year-old Shelley Armitage in April 2010, and then 36-year-old Suzanne Blamires in May of the same year.
Stephen Griffiths was handed a life sentence after he killed three women working in the red light district in Bradford was involved in the fight on Valentine’s Day
The monster, who dismembered and ate some of the body parts of his victim, was attacked after allegedly snapping at another inmate at the high-security prison, HMP Sutton, pictured
His victims: Susan Rushworth, 43, Suzanne Blamires, 36, and Shelley Armitage, 31
In 2010, Leeds Crown Court was told disturbing details of the killings by the then-40-year-old including the shocking revelation that 81 different pieces of Ms Blamires were found in or by the River Aire in Shipley.
When he was arrested Griffiths told police ‘I’ve killed loads’ and claimed he had eaten some of Ms Blamires’s flesh, adding: ‘That’s part of the magic.’
He used a powerful crossbow and a knife.
The Prison Service was approached for comment.
It is not the first time he was involved in a fight while in prison as in November it was reported that Griffiths had the bust-up with an inmate who knew Suzanne, Griffiths’ victim, and had grown up with her.
The source said: ‘He was unhappy being on a wing with his friend’s killer.
‘I don’t know how Griffiths came to know that he knew Suzanne.
‘The inmate was worried he would be attacked himself.’
It comes as Sara Sharif’s killer father was left scarred for life after a prison ambush in which ‘his neck was slashed with a tuna can lid’.
For many years Griffiths studied the disturbed minds of the most infamous serial killers, terrorists and war criminals
Susan Rushworth, 43, who went missing on 22 June 2001
Shelley Armitage, 31, who went missing from Bradford’s red light district in 26 April 2010
Two inmates pounced on Urfan Sharif, 43, in his cell on New Year’s Day at HMP Belmarsh, South London.
Just weeks into his 40-year sentence, the murderer was left in a critical condition but is understood to have survived the brutal attempt on his life.
Allegedly the pair were sickened by his treatment of the ten-year-old schoolgirl, who was hooded, bitten, burned and eventually beaten to death during a campaign of abuse before her body was found with at least 71 injuries at the family’s home in Woking, Surrey, last year.
A prison source reportedly said the inmates believe the attack ‘couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy’.
The Prison Service and the Metropolitan Police have confirmed officers are investigating an assault at Belmarsh on New Year’s Day.
A Prison Service spokesperson said: ‘It would be inappropriate to comment further while they investigate.’
Meanwhile, Scotland Yard said officers were probing ‘an allegation that a prisoner was assaulted at Belmarsh’, adding that ‘the 43-year-old suffered non-life-threatening injuries’.
Two inmates ambushed Urfan Sharif, 43, in his cell on New Years’ Day at HMP Belmarsh, South London
Sara Sharif, ten, suffered ‘unimaginable pain’ during more than two years of abuse and was ultimately tortured to death
This happened just weeks into his 40 year sentence, and although he was in a critical condition, it is understood he has survived the brutal attempt on his life. Pictured HMP Belmarsh
Other inmates at the high security facility include Grindr Killer Stephen Port, Night Stalker Delroy Grant and Danyal Hussein, who murdered two sisters in a London park.
Reports suggested the murderer suffered cuts to his neck and face and received medical treatment inside the prison.
A prison source was quoted as saying: ‘Urfan was sliced up badly in his cell by two others who rushed in. It was planned and they used a makeshift weapon — made from the lid of a tin of tuna.
‘He was sliced in the neck and face, and is still in healthcare and in a very bad way.
‘He was lucky to survive, has had to have stitches and will have scars as a permanent reminder of the attack. The guards tried to keep him safe because he obviously had a target on his back after the case was such big news.
‘Something like this was always on the cards, and an attack was probably only a matter of time.
‘Sharif has tried to keep his head down since coming into the jail, but word quickly got round about who he was.
‘Inmates were not happy he is in there with them and, although the other prisoners are in for heinous crimes, a lot of them don’t like people who attack children. A lot of them are saying how it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.’
During the trial a court heard that the 10-year-old schoolgirl suffered ‘unimaginable pain’ during more than two years of abuse and was ultimately tortured to death by her father Urfan Sharif, 43, and stepmother Beinash Batool, 30.
Mr Justice Cavanagh began his sentencing remarks by describing the degree of cruelty shown towards Sara as ‘inconceivable’, and jailed Sharif to a minimum term of 40 years, Batool to 33 years and Malik to 16 years in prison.
He said Sharif was mainly responsible as Sara’s father while Batool and Malik had not shown any remorse, as he told the court: ‘This poor child was battered with severe force, again and again’ and she was treated as ‘the family servant despite her young age’.
Sharif and Batool were found guilty of murder, while her uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, was convicted of causing or allowing a child’s death.
