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| Inmate sentenced for Mark Bridger attack | Inmate sentenced for Mark Bridger attack |
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| A prisoner who attacked child killer Mark Bridger to try to get him to say where April Jones's body was hidden has been given a second life term. | A prisoner who attacked child killer Mark Bridger to try to get him to say where April Jones's body was hidden has been given a second life term. |
| Convicted murderer and rapist Juvinal Ferreira, 24, attacked Bridger with a knife fashioned out of a razor at Wakefield Prison in July. | Convicted murderer and rapist Juvinal Ferreira, 24, attacked Bridger with a knife fashioned out of a razor at Wakefield Prison in July. |
| As well as the second life sentence, a judge ordered Ferreira's minimum term to be increased by five years. | As well as the second life sentence, a judge ordered Ferreira's minimum term to be increased by five years. |
| Bridger, from Machynlleth in Powys, was jailed for life for murder in May. | Bridger, from Machynlleth in Powys, was jailed for life for murder in May. |
| Leeds Crown Court heard Ferreira and other life prisoners had talked about attacking Bridger to make him reveal the whereabouts of five-year-old April's body. | Leeds Crown Court heard Ferreira and other life prisoners had talked about attacking Bridger to make him reveal the whereabouts of five-year-old April's body. |
| The attack happened three days after Bridger was allowed to associate with other prisoners. | The attack happened three days after Bridger was allowed to associate with other prisoners. |
| Jonathan Sharp, prosecuting, said: "The defendant saw him and walked directly up to him with the blade held between thumb and forefinger. | |
| "He then slashed him down the face, causing a deep wound extending from the temple to the chin. | |
| "He paused for a moment and looked Bridger directly in the eyes, in Bridger's own words 'as if to admire his work or show me who it was'." | |
| 'Closure for family' | |
| The court was told the child killer required more than 30 stitches to the wound and will be scarred for life. | |
| Ferreira, who was born in Guinea and grew up in Gambia, admitted wounding with intent at a previous hearing. | |
| Mr Justice Coulson, who sentenced Ferreira via videolink, said the motive for the attack was no mitigation. | |
| "Convicted murderers cannot appoint themselves as unpaid investigators of another crime, no matter how serious. They plainly cannot do that by themselves committing violent crime to do so." | |
| Robin Frieze, defending, said Ferreira did not attack Bridger to enhance his own status in prison, for reward or because he was incited to do it. | |
| "He does not suggest he was put up to it, but he listened to talk within the prison and he was under the impression that if he put the complainant in a state of fear then it was more likely it would achieve closure for the family of his victim." | |
| The court was told Ferreira arrived in the UK in 2007 with his mother. In April 2008 he raped and murdered 47-year-old Elaine Walpole in Dereham, Norfolk. | |
| In 2009 he was jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years and was recommended for deportation after his sentence was served. | |
| The judge said his sentence for slashing Bridger had to be consecutive if it was to have any deterrent effect. | |
| He said: "Life prisoners cannot go around attacking each other with impunity." |