A murderer who knife a student to death after being mocked about his weight has been given a further sentence for assaulting a Suffolk prison officer. 

Ahmed Mire, 35, is currently serving an 18-year jail for the death of 18-year-old Adam Pervaiz in 2009.

Ahmed Mire, 35, assaulted a Suffolk prison officerAhmed Mire, 35, assaulted a Suffolk prison officer (Image: Newsquest)

On Tuesday the defendant appeared via prison link at Ipswich Crown Court, charged with assaulting a prison officer at HMP Highpoint.

Mire was getting his breakfast and while he was beside prison officers in HMP Highpoint he suddenly punched one of them with “considerable force” said Judge Martyn Levett.

He was restrained after a short scuffle, but the attack left the officer with a bleeding nose and black eye.

After the assault Mire told prison staff he did not want to be at HMP Highpoint so wanted to do things to get himself removed.

The defendant is a paranoid schizophrenic and is on anti-psychotic and anti-depressant medication, however a psychiatrist’s report stated he was not mentally unwell at the time of the attack.

Judge Levett handed Mire a further 27 week prison sentence for the assault. 

The court heard during his time in prison Mire has been the subject of two serious assaults himself, including one where he was stabbed in the head and arms and one which left him with a broken jaw.  

Mire was 20 when he attacked Mr Pervaiz in Abinger Grove, Deptford, on May 7 2009 using a kitchen knife with a 13-inch blade.

Mire stabbed his victim repeatedly in the legs and buttocks, leaving him to bleed to death after severing the teenager’s femoral artery.

He then fled the country and was arrested after he returned to Britain two months later.

He claimed he had acted in self-defence but was found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey.