{"id":6027,"date":"2025-06-02T17:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/?p=6027"},"modified":"2025-06-03T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T11:35:10","slug":"teen-who-stabbed-10-prison-officers-moved-to-unit-with-games-and-film-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/teen-who-stabbed-10-prison-officers-moved-to-unit-with-games-and-film-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen who stabbed 10 prison officers moved to unit with games and film nights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Prison sources have expressed fears that staff at Bluebird House\u00a0mental health<\/a>\u00a0facility in Hampshire are not safe from the extremist, who is a\u00a0Muslim<\/a>\u00a0convert,\u00a0MailOnline reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A leaked intelligence report has revealed Ruth’s history of improvising weapons and even wanting to kill a prison officer.<\/p>\n

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He has also allegedly begun boasting about his new living arrangements and how the facility will be easier to escape from.<\/p>\n

Ruth was 15 when he researched weapons, stab vests and vehicles for a terror attack on the Isle of Wight Festival.<\/p>\n

He was arrested in July 2022 before being sentenced in April 2024 to seven years in jail.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

His new home will soon be Bluebird House mental health facility in Hampshire, which also offers sports facilities.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Staff try to make it as ‘homely and comfortable as possible’ and offer ‘activities, education and therapeutic sessions’ during the day.<\/p>\n

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Bluebird House mental health unit (Picture: NHS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The unit also offers a choice of meals and snacks and allows them to bring music into their rooms.<\/p>\n

They look after 20 young people in three wards, with fitness suits, a sports area and a games room.<\/p>\n

This makes a change from where he is currently housed at Feltham Young Offenders Institute in south-west London.<\/p>\n

Their guards wear full riot gear just to deliver food to Ruth or when they allow him out to shower or exercise.<\/p>\n

Sources inside the prison unit told MailOnline<\/a> they were shocked the teenage terrorist had been transferred.<\/p>\n

The source added: ‘He has stabbed so many officers while in Feltham \u2013 and openly boasts to staff that we will see him on the news one day.’<\/p>\n

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Ruth stabbed prison officers on more than 18 occasions (Picture: CTPSE\/Gardham)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

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

‘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.<\/p>\n

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

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.<\/p>\n

‘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.’<\/p>\n

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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