A bin containing human urine and excrement was thrown over a female warder as she was walking with a colleague at Maghaberry Prison's Bush House, which houses loyalist paramilitary prisoners.

Both warders have since received medical attention and the prisoner, has been transferred to a "Special Supervision Unit" and has been put on Rule 32, which restricts freedom of association (I've looked for the specific text of the rule but can't find it). The police are now investigating the matter.

It's depressing to think that someone can be so sick in the head as to think that something like this is acceptable. Animals. I can't imagine how distressing that would be and how intimidated and uneasy it would make the warder in question feel about returning to work there.