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It is beyond comprehension - and frankly beyond decency - that , the sadistic child killer behind the massacre, was not only not in the High Security Unit at Belmarsh, but had access to a kettle. This is a man who brutally murdered three innocent girls at a dance workshop - innocent children enjoying their summer holiday when pure evil walked in. He traumatised a nation with his beyond wicked acts!

Yet somehow, this animal, this butcher, was deemed fit to live among ordinary inmates and make himself a hot drink while prison officers risk their lives to keep society safe. This is not justice. This is a sick joke. Just days ago, he was able to launch yet another attack - scalding a prison officer with boiling water.

A cowardly act from a man who should be stripped of his humanity. This isn't the first incident of its kind. It comes a month after Hashem Abedi - the Manchester Arena bomber's brother, who aided and abetted his brother's actions - launched a similar attack using boiling butter and a makeshift knife. Are we learning nothing?

Where is the accountability? Why does no one ever seem to answer for these catastrophic failures? Why was Axel Rudakubana not in Belmarsh's High Security Unit?

That unit exists for one reason - to contain the worst of the worst. And if a triple child killer with terrorist materials in his bedroom doesn't qualify, then who exactly does?

Officials downgraded his suicide watch. They let him have access to a kettle. And now another officer is left scarred - physically, emotionally, maybe even permanently. How many warnings does this system need before it gets serious about protecting its own?

We are constantly told that the prison system is under strain - underfunded, understaffed, overworked. But this isn't about resources. This is about will. About a justice establishment that no longer understands the difference between humanity and hard-headedness.

There is no "rehabilitating" a man like Rudakubana. There is no bringing him back into society. He's never getting out. So why, in the name of all sanity, is he being treated like a common inmate?

Some people are not fit to rejoin civilisation. And they should not be treated as if they are. They should not be drinking tea, watching TV, or chatting in the prison yard. They should be locked down, behind multiple layers of steel, under constant surveillance - stripped of all luxuries, stripped of all privilege.

The American prison system gets this. Supermax prisons do not pander to murderers. We need the same here. Because right now, the British state is failing - not just the victims and their families, but the brave men and women who wear the uniform and walk those prison corridors every day.

But even that may not be enough. Rudakubana will never re-enter society. He will never be rehabilitated. The question we must now ask - and one this case forces into the spotlight - is whether the time has come to reopen the debate on capital punishment in the UK.

Why should taxpayers fund decades of incarceration for an individual who has committed acts of such calculated cruelty and poses a permanent risk to everyone around him, including staff? At what point does justice for the victims - and protection for the innocent - outweigh the rights of a man who forfeited his own humanity?

Interestingly, Labour has recently proposed chemical castration as a potential punishment for certain repeat sex offenders - a controversial policy that many see as a signal of a harder stance on crime.

If this is seriously being considered in modern Britain, then it opens the door to an even more serious national conversation that if the state can forcibly alter the biology of a criminal in the name of public safety, why is it unthinkable to revisit capital punishment for the most extreme, irredeemable cases?

Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick was right to call this a major security failure. And Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood must act - not tomorrow, not next week, but today. Launch an immediate investigation. Tear up the soft protocols. End the culture of appeasement.

And build a system where monsters like Rudakubana are treated accordingly - not with pity, but with the unflinching hand of justice.

This was not a mistake. This was a disgrace. And the British public deserves better. That officer could have died. Next time, one just might. What will it take for this government - or the opposition - to face the real questions?