The UK’s most dangerous terrorist offenders have been barred from kitchens after a rampage by Manchester Arena bombing plotter Hashem Abedi.

Abedi attacked three prison officers, stabbing them with a blade made from cooking trays and throwing hot oil in their faces.

The officers sustained life-threatening injuries including burns, scalds and stab wounds in the "unprovoked" and "vicious" attack at HMP Frankland.

And the Ministry of Justice has suspended kitchen use in prison separation centres, which are used for terrorist offenders feared to be capable of radicalising others.

The MoJ has vowed to carry out a review into the attack.

Abedi had access to the kitchen in Frankland's separation centre, one of only two separation centres currently in use.

It is understood that Hashem Abedi was moved to the separation centre at HMP Full Sutton following the kitchen attack.

Asked by Nick Ferrari on LBC why Abedi had been allowed a frying pan, Steve Gillan, from the Prison Officers Association, revealed: “He shouldn’t be quite frankly.

"To be fair, we have raised that now with the Prison Service yesterday, we have had good dialogue with them, and now they’re suspending all self-cooking facilities in the separation units, and the closed supervision centres in all high-security jails.”

He added that it was “an absolute disgrace” that Abedi had been given access to his own cooking facilities.

“If you remember, these separation units were opened in 2017 to put where necessary, dangerous prisoners and dangerous prisoners that were a threat to national security, and of course, this individual is a dangerous prisoner, and it’s a threat.”

He added: “I don’t believe for one minute that those prisoners that are in those separation units should have self-cooking facilities.”

The attack has prompted renewed concern over how Britain handles the most dangerous terrorist offenders.

Islamists run “shadow Sharia courts, dictate diets and enforce their rules with threats and flogging” behind bars, it was claimed.

Shadow Justice Secretary Mr Jenrick told the Daily Express: "It is ridiculous that one of the most dangerous prisoners in the country - with a history of attacking officers - was allowed access to materials which could be used to attack prison officers.

"Prison governors need to stop appeasing these offenders.

"Instead of isolating them, the system is protecting them - not officers or the public.

"Islamist gangs run shadow sharia courts, dictate diets and enforce their rules with threats and flogging. Officers fear being labelled racist if they step in. This is appeasement, not punishment.

"This appalling incident must be a turning point.”

Abedi, 28, who was jailed for life for helping his brother carry out the 2017 suicide bombing.

The Islamist terrorist was handed a record-breaking 55-year minimum term in August 2020 which he is currently serving at the category A HMP Frankland.

Counter-terrorism police are leading the investigation into an attack on three prison officers.

One female officer was discharged from hospital on Saturday afternoon. Two male officers suffered “severe stab wounds” and remained in hospital in a stable condition.

Seperation centres, introduced in 2017, aim to control prisoners with extreme views by preventing them from radicalising other inmates or committing more acts of violence.

Prison officers fear “copycat attacks” and said terrorists held in “separation centres” should only have “basic entitlements” because they are hellbent on hurting “everyone they come into contact with."

Mark Fairhurst, of the Prison Officers Association, said the attack was carried out in a separation centre where inmates are allowed to use cooking facilities.

He told the BBC: "To allow that type of prisoner to access the kitchen and use the utensils that can be used as weapons against staff, and can inflict serious harm on staff, that needs to be removed immediately.

"We're now worried about the knock-on effect of this and copycat incidents.

"It's very difficult to get someone into the separation centre because of the process you have to go through, so the intelligence really needs to be on the ball to get someone contained in the separation centre."

"A separation centre is there for a reason," he said. "All we need to do with those types of prisoners is give them their basic entitlements.

"Separation centres should be for control and containment because these people are not going to change their ideologies and they are intent on inflicting harm on everyone they come into contact with."

Chris Phillips, the former head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office, said: “I don’t think it is any secret Islamism is ruling some of them at the moment. They are the biggest gang.

“They are not de-radicalised, and clearly, this man is never going to be de-radicalised.

“They can’t be given access to these types of things. Prison officers have a right to their own life as well.

“These people should have very little rights. They should be kept in containment and on their own.

“We’re too busy worrying about their health and making sure that they are looked after, that they get their human rights, than we are the prison officers.”