Prison officer who 'nearly died' after being attacked by killer Carl Langdell awarded £600k

A prison officer who 'nearly died' after being attended by the Plenty of Fish killer has been awarded £600,000 in compensation.

The injured guard was 'very nearly killed' during a four-minute onslaught from murdered Carl Langdell.

The 50-year-old officer was attacked so badly he was unable to carry on with his job. Meanwhile, he claims that Langdell 'got an easy ride', the Mirror reports.

Langdell was given a minimum sentence of 26 years after confessing to murdering young teacher Katie Locke and sexually assaulting her corpse.

Hel throttled Miss Locke in a hotel room, hours after a first date organised through the Plenty of Fish website.

The 26-year-old, who lied to Miss Locke about being a lawyer, wrapped his victim's body in a duvet before dumping her near a skip in the grounds of the four-star hotel.

Months before the murder, he avoided going to prison after making threats to kill a community nurse. 

Instead he got a suspended sentence, having threatened the woman in what he claimed was an attempt to shock mental health officials to get their attention.

After the murder, Langdell told his mother he was a 'monster' and claimed he had killed Miss Locke in a sex game gone wrong.

He had told a mental health worker that he had fantasies of cutting a girl's throat, seeing her naked and having sex with her dead body, just nine months before the murder.

In 2021, Langdell died in prison after his 'throat was slashed'. He was found in his cell with serious injuries to his neck by guards at Wakefield prison in West Yorkshire.

Prison guards were alerted to the incident after hearing noises coming from the mentally ill murderer's single-person cell, according to The Sun.

A source told the newspaper: 'He was found in his cell with a slashed throat.'

The guard he injured said: 'He charged me. He smacked me in the face, smashing my eye socket, and threw me against a wall. He started strangling me and nearly broke my neck.' 

The officer, who now works as a postman, had to wait eight years for his settlement.

He added: 'One thing that really got my goat was that the day after I was attacked, two PE instructors carried a rowing machine across the prison... allowing him to continue his exercise routine.

'It added insult to injury. The reason I am talking about this is I became determined this sort of bad treatment should not happen to anyone else. I was treated very badly and the award I have been given reflects the psychological trauma I went through as well as the physical injuries.' 

MailOnline has contacted the Ministry of Justice.