TWENTY five prison officers were taken ill after a staff curry was ‘spiked with a zombie drug by inmates’.
Emergency services were called to HMP Swaleside in Sheppey, Kent, following what the Criminal Justice Workers Union described as a “mass poisoning of staff”.
Paramedics set up a medical incident unit at the jail and at least three employees were hospitalised in the alleged poisoning on Thursday, May 9.
It is suspected the synthetic drug Spice, also known as NPS, was added to the meal by prisoners in the canteen of the high-security jail.
Andy Hamlin, an official for the CJWU, said: “Prisoners preparing food in the staff …