VerySmall I get what you are saying but the other 2 prisoners made the decision to do this- so I very much doubt they'll get away without punishment.
But if they are serving Life Sentences (and I did wonder what they were in for as they must have been in the same wing to get access to him) then there's not much the Prison Service can do.
But everyone who is aghast at this - I live in Essex and people still talk about the 'Old East End' where women and children were safe because justice and retribution was dished out.
I'm not sure how much is urban myth but how many prisoners in the past would have been 'taught a lesson' by other inmates.And no-one outside the prison was any the wiser?
It's the same when I see in the papers that someone has been jailed for child abuse/elder abuse and animal abuse. I hope they'll get a fucking good kicking every day they are in there 