Teen who stabbed 10 prison officers moved to unit with games and film nights

A teenager who plotted a terror attack at a popular UK festival has been moved to an NHS unit with arts and crafts and quizzes.

Nathan Ruth, who can now be named for the first time after turning 18, has knifed 10 prison officers since being arrested in July 2022.

Prison sources have expressed fears that staff at Bluebird House mental health facility in Hampshire are not safe from the extremist, who is a Muslim convert, MailOnline reports.

A leaked intelligence report has revealed Ruth’s history of improvising weapons and even wanting to kill a prison officer.

He has also allegedly begun boasting about his new living arrangements and how the facility will be easier to escape from.

Ruth was 15 when he researched weapons, stab vests and vehicles for a terror attack on the Isle of Wight Festival.

He was arrested in July 2022 before being sentenced in April 2024 to seven years in jail.

By that time, the teenager had racked up 18 attacks on prison officers, including one instance when he tried to slice a guard’s ear off and attacked another with a makeshift knife.

His new home will soon be Bluebird House mental health facility in Hampshire, which also offers sports facilities.

The unit describes itself as a ‘specialist, secure mental health inpatient unit’ that creates ‘a friendly, welcoming and therapeutic environment’ for the young people in their care.

Staff try to make it as ‘homely and comfortable as possible’ and offer ‘activities, education and therapeutic sessions’ during the day.

The unit also offers a choice of meals and snacks and allows them to bring music into their rooms.

They look after 20 young people in three wards, with fitness suits, a sports area and a games room.

This makes a change from where he is currently housed at Feltham Young Offenders Institute in south-west London.

Their guards wear full riot gear just to deliver food to Ruth or when they allow him out to shower or exercise.

Sources inside the prison unit told MailOnline they were shocked the teenage terrorist had been transferred.

The source added: ‘He has stabbed so many officers while in Feltham – and openly boasts to staff that we will see him on the news one day.’

‘We can’t believe they have let him go. He has 100 per cent manipulated the system to get himself sent somewhere more comfortable.’

They added: ‘What really annoys staff is that he has received no further prison time for all the stabbings against staff.’

‘They just want to focus on his rehabilitation. Well, tell that to the officer who nearly lost an ear. He is a stone-cold psychopath, the scariest I have ever seen.

‘He will not stop until he has killed someone. Staff at that place do not know what they are letting themselves in for.’

The Ministry of Justice said: ‘Prisoners can be transferred for treatment in mental health hospitals, based on assessments by expert clinicians, but will return to prison once they are fit to do so.

‘We do not tolerate violence against our hard-working staff and will always push for the strongest possible punishments for those who break the rules.’

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