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A team of hardened criminals who staged a Home Alone-style mutiny in their maximum security prison have been handed extra time behind bars for their 10-hour rebellion. The eight inmates, all serving life sentences for murder or conspiracy to murder, sprayed shower gel, shampoo and oil on the floors of HMP Whitmore to make it too slippery for guards to intervene after they refused to return to their cells.

By the time a Prison Service national response team arrived at the Category A jail in Cambridgeshire, the prisoners had managed to arm themselves with weapons made out of broken table legs and kettles. But they too had to combat the super-slippery floor - reminiscent of the traps laid by Kevin McCallister in the hit 1990 Christmas caper film. The mutiny was sparked when a group of lifers refused to return to their cells for lunch at HMP Whitemoor near March, Cambridgeshire, on October 7, 2022.

Cambridgeshire Police said the prisoners took control of a spur area of the wing - a self-contained landing or corridor before spraying oil, shower gel, shampoo and other items on the floor, making the area too slippery to enter, and they then overturned different pieces of furniture to build a barricade.

Police said that a national response team attempted to enter the area at 8pm, but that by this point, the prisoners had armed themselves with weapons from the furniture.

They had also created protective headwear to shield them from Pava spray and pyrotechnic flashes, the force said.

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The prisoners eventually retreated to the cell of one of the group of eight, Korie Hassan, where they built a further barricade.

The national response team regained control at around 10pm, and the prisoners were restrained.

Cambridgeshire Police said the eight prisoners were each sentenced to extra jail time at Cambridge Crown Court, with the last sentence passed on February 20.

Det Con Emma Purser, who investigated the incident, said: "All of the prisoners involved are already serving life sentences for murder or conspiracy to murder, but have now received prison terms of at least 16 months on top of the time they are already serving."

Those sentenced were: Dior Diego Jackson, 27, who pleaded guilty to violent disorder and was sentenced to one year and nine months in addition to his existing prison term; Rick-Champion Champion Musaba, 30, sentenced to four years in addition to his existing sentence after being found guilty of participating in a prison mutiny. Nicholas Bridge, 26, was sentenced to three years and six months in addition to time already served after being found guilty of participating in a prison mutiny.

Bradley Blundell, 26, was sentenced to one year and six months in addition to his existing sentence after pleading guilty to violent disorder. Irwin Constable, 25, was sentenced to three years and six months in addition to time served after being found guilty of participating in a prison mutiny. Korie Hassan, 33, was sentenced to three years and four months in addition to his existing time behind bars after admitting to violent disorder. Jahliel Rose, 29, was sentenced to one year and four months in addition to time served after admitting to violent disorder. Troy Muschett-Thomas, 25, was handed one year and six months in addition to his existing sentence after pleading guilty to violent disorder.