THREE terrorist prisoners have been convicted of attacking killer Jeremy Green in prison, soon after he was jailed for life for the horrific murder of York estate agent Nicole Waterhouse.

Green, 27, former army lieutenant was ordered to serve a minimum of 34 years in prison in April last year for the murder of Miss Waterhouse and the attempted murder of her friend Karen Browne, in October 2013.

During a nine-hour ordeal he tortured, stabbed and smothered them while texting messages purporting to come from them.

Two weeks after his sentence, he was beaten up in a corridor after leaving a gym session at HMP Wakefield, receiving a broken nose and cheekbone.

A jury at Leeds Crown Court on Tuesday found Shah Rahman, 32, Jewel Uddin, 29, and Manfu Asiedu, 42, guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm to him.

They acquitted two other prisoners, convicted murderer Barrington Denny, 26 and rapist Adam Mac, 30, of the same offence.

All five are Muslims and Green claimed in evidence he was attacked because of his previous army service in Afghanistan. But he admitted he was a fantasist, had only been in Afghanistan for short periods of acclimatisation and only ever left camp Bastian on one patrol before he was court martialled from the Yorkshire Regiment for stealing from fellow officers.

Uddin was convicted on April 30, 2013 of engaging in conduct in preparation for terrorist acts and was sentenced to an extended sentence of 19 and a half years custody with an extended licence period of five years.

He planned with others to attack an English Defence League march in Dewsbury on June 30, 2012 but he had arrived too late.

The jury heard his car was stopped by the police on the way back to his home and in the car were found two shotguns, swords, knives, a nail bomb and an unfinished non-viable pipe bomb.

Uddin maintained it was Green who started the incident in Wakefield after commenting “here comes the Taliban” and the trial judge Mr Justice Males said on the evidence that was possibly the remark that “sparked this off” on the spur of the moment but said it was no excuse for a “vicious attack.”

Jailing Uddin for three years concurrent to his sentence he said the Parole Board would take that into account when considering any release date “and in all likelihood your sentence will be longer than otherwise.”

Asiedu and Rahman were each given two years consecutive to their current sentences.

Asiedu was jailed for 33 years in November 2007 after he admitted doing an act with intent to cause an explosion likely to endanger life or property.

The jury heard “He was one of five conspirators in the 21/7 attempted suicide attacks on London Transport. He had a rucksack bomb but changed his mind and dumped it, without the battery in woodland.”

Rahman was convicted on February 9, 2012 of engaging in conduct in preparation for terrorist acts at the London Stock Exchange and was sentenced to an extended sentence of 12 years custody with an extended licence period of five years. He was previously due to be released in December next year.

The judge also commended prison officer Mark Barnes for his bravery in putting himself between Green and his attackers ending the incident.

  • Legal reporting restrictions imposed in court meant that, while the trial was ongoing, our reports of this case could not refer back to the detail of Green's offences and York links.