The prison where Benjamin Mendy is being held is plagued by a “tangled web of gangs,” The Sun has revealed. In the detention center, HMP Altcourse in Liverpool, an average of 29 attacks per month take place between inmates. Last year there were a total of 338 attacks, the newspaper reports. Mendy, who has been detained since August, has six charges of rape and assault to his name.
The numbers are shocking, given that the inmates were barely able to go out in the past year due to the corona pandemic. According to The Sun the prison is ravaged by rival gangs, who do not shy away from violence. The inmates attack each other with makeshift weapons like razor blades hidden in toothbrushes. A weapon was used in 35 of the 338 incidents of violence between July 2020 and June 2021. 53 attacks resulted in a referral, with one inmate given an additional 10 months.
The above newspaper bases its figures on a recently published report. “The local and urban catchment area of the prison has led to more conflicts, which are moving from the community to the prison,” reads the annual report of the prison. Independent Monitoring Board. “A lot of time and effort has gone into unraveling the tangled web of the Liverpool gangs. During the reporting period, the average prison population was 1,113 with an average number of assaults of 29 per month, which is just over 2 percent.”
Benjamin Mendy is suspected of committing six rapes and one sexual assault. The left wing defender has been in pre-trial detention since August. In October, the footballer was denied bail by a judge after a 50-minute interrogation. It was Mendy’s third bail application. He will have to appear in court on January 24 next year. The Manchester City defender was arrested after a 17-year-old girl alleged that she was sexually assaulted by him in August at his villa in Cheshire, about 30 miles east of Liverpool.
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