A “remorseless” inmate slashed a prison officer’s stomach with a shank and attacked guards with a kettle and faeces.

Ahmed Jama, 29, knifed Ricky Stupple while in HMP Swaleside on the Isle of Sheppey, while serving 10 years for stabbing a rival in the neck with a kitchen knife.

Mr Stupple, a senior officer, was alerted to a wing inside the Category B prison following reports multiple prisoners were drunk on hooch inside a cell.

When Mr Stupple arrived Jama repeatedly asked “What are you going to do?”

After becoming agitated and pacing on the wing he shouted: “What is going to happen now?”

Following a brief struggle Jama “produced an improvised knife and stabbed officer Stupple in the abdomen,” prosecutor Tom Dunn told Canterbury Crown Court on Thursday.

By “pure luck” Mr Stupple received a relatively minor wound and was treated at a nearby hospital, the court heard.

But he suffered “profound and long-lasting” psychological trauma following the attack.

Jama has challenged the prison system with troubling behaviour since being locked up in 2016 for 10 years for wounding with intent.

He would soon break a prison officer’s nose after hurling a kettle at his face, resulting in a further 26 weeks custodial sentence, the court heard.

The knife attack on Mr Stupple followed in 2018.

By 2019 four prison officers were required to attend Jama’s cell after he was placed in segregation, following concerns over anti-social behaviour.

When they attempted to change his waste bin Jama launched its contents over them, striking their faces, heads and necks.

“The content of that bin comprised of his faeces and urine,” Mr Dunn explained.

Jama was handed 30 months after admitting administering a poisonous noxious thing with intent.

However, the next year he punched a victim down a flight of stairs after being transferred to HMP Peterborough in 2020, attracting another 30-month prison sentence.

The court heard on Thursday Jama’s earliest release date was March 2023.

But Judge Simon James handed Jama a further 44 months custody after he admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm to Mr Stupple, alongside the unauthorised possession of a knife in February last year.

Judge James told Jama, who has 11 previous convictions for violence, he intended to cause “greater severity” of injuries in the “premeditated” attack against Mr Stupple.

“You used an improvised weapon to stab a prison officer in the abdomen, it is only by luck that the officer’s injuries were not life threatening,” he said.

Jama, who was 24 at the time of the attack, displayed an “abject lack of remorse” since the ordeal, the judge added.

Wearing an Arsenal FC football shirt and appearing from HMP Dovegate in Staffordshire remotely, Jama, of no fixed abode, spoke to confirm his name and date of birth.

Rina-Marie Hill, mitigating, highlighted Jama was 24 at the time of the attack, entered early guilty pleas and potentially has an undiagnosed personality disorder.