Convicted murderer Cedric Kiyago has sentence extended by six months after deploying PAVA spray at HMP Whitemoor prison officers

A convicted murderer has had six months added onto his sentence after he attacked prison officers with their own incapacitant spray.

Cedric Kiyago, 29, was in an unlocked cell at HMP Whitemoor in March on February 23 last year when he noticed another prisoner on the ground being restrained by prison officers.

Kiyago ran towards the scene and approached the officers from behind.

He grabbed one officer’s PAVA spray canister, pulling it off the safety cord before hitting the same officer over the head with it.

Then, he deployed the PAVA spray at a group of officers who were restraining another prisoner.

Kiyago denied assaulting emergency workers but was found guilty following a trial at Cambridge Crown Court.

Yesterday, he was jailed for an additional six months to be served after his existing sentence.

DC Emma Purser said: “This was a nasty attack surrounding an incident that had nothing to do with Kiyago.

“The prison officers involved all had to receive medical treatment after being exposed to the PAVA spray, when they were just trying to do their job. To be attacked like this at work is completely unacceptable.”