Convicted sex offender sexually assaulted female prison staff and pursued “campaign” of sex offending against her

An inmate at Durham Prison sentenced for sex offences has had his time increased after he sexually assaulted a female member of staff at the institution.

Amjad Aljarad is serving an existing sentence for sexual assault at HMP Durham over an incident last year.

Durham Crown Court heard that the first of his latest sequence of offences took place when inmates were being released from cells to collect medication on May 31.

He proceeded to first expose himself to a female member of prison staff he would later assault.

After he was released to enable him to collect medication, rather than attend the medical area, he went to the showers, where he threw sachets of shampoo and bars of soap at officers attending.

Cainan Lonsdale, prosecuting, said Aljarad was ushered from the shower block to go to collect his medication, but, walking along the wing he indecently assaulted the same female guard by squeezing her behind.

Afterwards he then pressed the attention bell in his cell, which she had to attend, and performed a sex act in front of her. This eventually led him to be sent to the segregation wing.

But when she had to serve there as well, he pressed the attention button 17 times and exposed himself again.

On going to court for the additional spree of sex offenses against the woman, the judge told him he had conducted, “a campaign of sexual offending” against the prison worker.

He said an aggravating feature was his “concerning sexual record”, in this country and abroad.

He was sentenced to an additional 20 months in prison.