A convicted terrorist has been sentenced to five more months behind bars - for punching a prison officer. The officer was left struggling to breathe following the attack by Abdullahi Ahmed Jama Farah, a court was told.
Jama Farah, 26, from Longsight, was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey in 2016 after creating a communications hub to help extremists linked to the so-called Islamic State in Syria.
Jama Farah appeared at Worcester Crown Court on Thursday - his birthday - via a video-link to Long Lartin high security jail near Evesham.
The court heard Jama Farah - who was refused parole earlier this year over 'behavioural concerns - was being returned to his cell in a segregation unit when he assaulted a male prison officer shortly
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