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Mahmood has previously ordered a "snap review" into the use of protective body armour for prison staff.

An internal review into protective body armour will be also carried out, she said.

The Prison Service will conduct a snap review into whether protective body armour should be made available to front-line staff, the justice secretary has said.

When officers searched him they found Dighton was wearing body armour and was carrying a hatchet in his bag.

He has a tourniquet, and a separate medical kit attached to the front of his body armour.