Christopher Stubbs is serving a life sentence for the murder of Lee Pettite in 2016. Almost nine years to the day after he was given a life-sentence, Stubbs was handed an extended 12 years behind bars
A murderer who attacked a prisoner officer with a self-made hook shank moments after morning unlocking has had his jail term extended.
Christopher Stubbs is serving a life sentence for the murder of Lee Pettite in 2016. Almost nine years to the day after he was given a life-sentence, Stubbs, now 30, was handed an extended 12 years behind bars following the vicious attack.
On March 1, 2016, Stubbs, then 20, shot Mr Petitte in the back, killing him, as he ran away from the three men chasing him in Bankfields, Eston. Tied up in his own web of lies about the fatal shooting, Stubbs, formerly of South Bank, pleaded guilty to murder before his trial.
He was jailed for life and told he must serve a minimum 24-year jail term.
In July 2024, eight years into his sentence, Stubbs was an inmate at Garth Prison, Ulnes Walton, near Leyland, in Lancashire. Moments after morning unlocking, Stubbs used a self-made hook shank to hit a prison officer several times, Teeside Live reports.
The officer, a man in his 50s, suffered three deep puncture wounds to his torso and abdomen from the shank, and was also subjected to blows to the head during the attack, Lancashire Police has said. It took several prison officers to restrain and subdue Stubbs, with him continuing to hit out and he also bit another officer.
Stubbs was seen to burst out of his cell in an agitated state and go towards the other end of the wing, producing the weapon from his waistband and attacking the officer.
At Preston Crown Court on Thursday, Stubbs was handed a 12-year prison sentence. He had been found guilty of section 18 wounding with intent to cause grievous harm, assault on an emergency worker, and possession of a sharply pointed article inside a prison, following a three-day trial.
The 12-year sentence will run consecutively to the 24-year tariff of the life sentence he was given for Mr Petitte’s murder. Stubbs refused to leave the court cells for sentence, with the judge sentencing him in his absence.
Detective Constable Paul Brown, of Skelmersdale CID, said: “This was a shocking and abhorrent attack on a prison officer by a serving inmate using a vicious self-made weapon.
“The judge hearing the case acknowledged the danger that prison officers face in doing their duty and the bravery they show when dealing with violent prisoners. It took several prison officers to restrain Stubbs, and the judge described him as acting like a rabid dog in trying to bite them.
“The length of the sentence imposed which was ordered to run consecutively to his tariff for the life sentence, shows the seriousness of the case. Stubbs is a violent and dangerous individual.”
