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Strangeways lifer with 'anger issues' brutally attacked 'smallest and most defenceless' prison officer

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Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A lifer serving his sentence at Strangeways brutally attacked a female prison officer, targeting her because she was the 'smallest and most defenceless' victim he could find.

Carlos Racitalal, 34, repeatedly punched the woman to the face, then started kicking her when she fell over. Racitalal is serving a life sentence for attempted murder after a series of random attacks in Leicester.

In one, he slit the throat of a 10-year-old boy. Racitalal also stabbed a mum in the head as she walked down the street with her children; knifed a man in his 70s; and deliberately drove his car at five-year-old girl in an Asda car park.

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