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Genocide brute has his throat cut in a British jail
Radislav Krstic ... 'revenge hit'
By MIKE SULLIVAN, Crime Editor
05/08/2010
A BOSNIAN Serb general serving 35 years for war crimes had his throat
slashed in a British jail yesterday.
Former General-Major Radislav Krstic, 62, was set on by three fellow inmates
in what is thought to be a revenge attack for the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian
Muslims.
They fashioned weapons out of razor blades for the onslaught in his cell at
Wakefield jail, West Yorks. Staff overpowered the attackers.
Krstic's throat was cut a number of times and he was stabbed in the head.
His condition is critical but he is expected to survive.
A source said last night: "It was a vicious revenge attack."
Krstic, captured by the SAS in 1998, was jailed by a war crimes tribunal for
aiding and abetting genocide in the slaughter of men and boys at Srebrenica
in 1995.
One of the jail attackers is said to be Croatian illegal immigrant Indrit
Krasniqi, 22. He is serving life for the 2005 gang rape and murder of
Mary-Ann Leneghan, 16, in Reading Berks.
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Radislav Krstic ... 'revenge hit'
By MIKE SULLIVAN, Crime Editor
05/08/2010
A BOSNIAN Serb general serving 35 years for war crimes had his throat
slashed in a British jail yesterday.
Former General-Major Radislav Krstic, 62, was set on by three fellow inmates
in what is thought to be a revenge attack for the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian
Muslims.
They fashioned weapons out of razor blades for the onslaught in his cell at
Wakefield jail, West Yorks. Staff overpowered the attackers.
Krstic's throat was cut a number of times and he was stabbed in the head.
His condition is critical but he is expected to survive.
A source said last night: "It was a vicious revenge attack."
Krstic, captured by the SAS in 1998, was jailed by a war crimes tribunal for
aiding and abetting genocide in the slaughter of men and boys at Srebrenica
in 1995.
One of the jail attackers is said to be Croatian illegal immigrant Indrit
Krasniqi, 22. He is serving life for the 2005 gang rape and murder of
Mary-Ann Leneghan, 16, in Reading Berks.
© News Group Newspapers Ltd. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered
trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited.