ONE of the racist killers of Stephen Lawrence clashed with Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi behind bars, a report has revealed.
David Norris, one of the racist killers of Stephen LawrenceCredit: PA
The details were in a report released by the Parole Board after lifer Norris’s freedom bid was turned down last week on the basis that he still posed a danger.
It added that Norris, who was jailed for at least 14 years in 2012 for the murder of teenager Stephen in South East London in 1993, “consistently minimised or denied his attitudes and behaviour.”
It said Norris, 49, admitted he had a go at Abedi when life got “too much one day” after a spell in segregation.
The report read: “He said it was the ‘Manchester bomber’ and they ‘all took umbrage with him’.
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“He said he called the prisoner a terrorist and swore at him, but had not used the racial slur. He said it had been an offence-based response, not a racial issue.
“Mr Norris said he had been raising money for the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing at the time.
“He accepted it was ‘not his place to be dishing out justice’ but he was stressed and ‘terrorism has always riled me, going back to the IRA’.”
The report also outlined behaviour and security concerns linked to Norris’ racism, phone smuggling and allegations of violence, some of it against Norris.
Abedi, 28, helped his suicide bomber brother Salman plan the 2017 Manchester Arena atrocity, which killed 22.
In 2020 he was jailed for life, with a minimum of 55 years behind bars.
He was moved from South London’s Belmarsh after he and two other lags attacked a guard there.
Abedi is due to face trial next year accused of trying to murder three prison officers in April at HMP Frankland, County Durham, using hot cooking oil and makeshift weapons.
He has been moved back to Belmarsh.