DETECTIVES investigating an alleged prison glass attack in which three officers were injured have made an arrest.

Craig Wylde lost the use of his left hand and two colleagues were hurt after an inmate, said to be killer Kevan Thakrar, were allegedly attacked with a broken vinegar bottle in top-security Frankland Prison, near Durham City, on Saturday, March 13.

Police launched an investigation and inquiries have been continuing.

Yesterday, Durham Police said detectives travelled to Wakefield Prison at the end of last month to formally arrest the suspect, who had been moved from Frankland.

“After completing their interview with him, police are now collating further statements from prison staff before deciding, with the Crown Prosecution Service, on the next course of action,” a police spokesman said.

Thakrar, 23, is serving a minimum 35-year prison sentence, along with his brother Miran, for blasting three men to death with a Mac-10 submachine gun, over a £10,000 drugs debt.

He is suspected of carrying out the Frankland attack after barricading himself into his cell for nearly 24 hours, in an attempt to be moved into segregation with his brother.

The incident happened when officers opened his cell door, shortly after 9am.

A female prison officer was stabbed twice in the back and a second male guard was also injured.

Mr Wylde has since left hospital and is thought to be gradually recovering at home.

The attack came eight days before child killer Ian Huntley had his throat slashed in Frankland by armed robber Damien Fowkes.

Huntley, who murdered ten-year-old schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambridgeshire, in 2002, was taken to an outside hospital for treatment after Fowkes attacked him with a makeshift knife made from a toothbrush and a razor.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw said the Government had “absolutely no intention”

of paying compensation for his injuries.

The attacks led to questions over security at Frankland, with the Prison Officers’ Association calling for glass to be removed from prisons and officers to be given stab vests.

Governor Dave Thompson insisted that Frankland was safe, saying such incidents were rare.