Evil Kevan Thakrar, who used a submachine gun to slaughter two men and a teenager, had been charged with assault after throwing excrement at the officer when she rushed to his cell to answer an alarm call.
But, incredibly, the killer – who was last week awarded £1,000 after a prison guard squirted shampoo on his CDs and stereo – was cleared following a blunder by jail staff.
A judge threw out the charge, along with a separate charge of witness intimidation, because Thakrar had not been allowed to see his prison papers in advance of the court case.
Last night the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed the case had collapsed because of an “abuse of process”.
The revelation comes almost two years after The Sunday Post revealed Thakrar had won £800 of taxpayers’ cash because some of his belongings – including nasal hair clippers – were damaged or lost in jail.
He was also cleared of seriously injuring three guards with a broken chilli sauce bottle at Frankland Prison, County Durham, in 2010.
Last night one of the injured guards, Craig Wylde, reacted with fury that Thakrar had been let off again.
The 33-year-old former Scots Guard, who will never work again because of injuries inflicted by Thakrar, said: “This just happens time and time again, and shows just how pathetic the British justice system is.
“It again shows how the law is all about the perpetrator and aggressors’ rights and the victims just get pushed to one side.
“It is an absolute disgrace.”
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) charged the triple murderer, whose mother is from Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, with assault after allegations he threw excrement at his victim at Strangeways jail, Manchester.
However, Thakrar’s lawyers successfully argued it was not in the public interest to prosecute and the case was dropped, sparking outrage among the Prison Officers’ Association (POA).
Association chiefs pressed for an expensive judicial review and the charges were re-instated after Mr Justice Stewart ruled the CPS’s decision had been illegal.
But, incredibly, the assault charge – along with a second of witness intimidation – was dropped before the trial even started.
In a letter penned from behind bars, Thakrar accused prosecutors of “frittering away substantial amounts of public money” on the failed prosecution.
He wrote: “Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been wasted through this vindictive prosecution.”
The 28-year-old was jailed in 2008 with his brother Miran for murdering Keith Cowell, 52, his son Matthew, 17, and a friend Tony Dulieu, 33, with a Mac-10 submachine gun.
The pair were sentenced to serve at least 35 and 42 years respectively.
The POA declined to comment on the collapse of Thakrar’s assault case.
A CPS spokesman confirmed: “Kevan Thakrar was charged with assault against a prison officer in December, 2014.
“However, following an abuse of process argument by the defence a judge ruled that the case should be dismissed as the defendant had been prevented from accessing his legal papers while in prison.”
A Prison Service spokesperson said: “We will review this incident and will carefully consider what lessons can be learned.”
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