racist thug who petrol-bombed a mosque has admitted slashing an African terror chief behind bars. Thomas Conington, 32, launched an attack on African warlord Ahmed Al-Faq Almadhi, 44, in HMP Shotts, Lanarkshire.
Conington used a razor blade stuck to a piece of plastic to leave Almadhi with two 10mm lacerations to his face. Prison guards saw him walk towards his victim with his hand in his pocket before attacking him.Almadhi, who has links to al-Qaeda, has been held in Scotland since November 2018 after dodging a nine year sentence in Mali through a deal with the International Criminal Court.He pled guilty to war crimes at his trial at The Hague in 2016 after destroying holy sites in his Timbuktu homeland.