Dizaei Shares Cell With Child Rapist

Sat, 13 March 2010 Courtesy of: Sun Online

Jailed police chief Ali Dizaei is sharing a cell with a child rapist aged 80 - to save the disgraced police officer from beatings.

It is the only way shamed Dizaei's safety can be guaranteed while he does time for fitting up an innocent man.

The 47-year-old Met commander - jailed for four years last month - is said to be "deeply upset" at being forced to live alongside the pervert, who is serving a long sentence for attacking a girl of 14.

“Usk specialises in sex offenders and is a long way for Dizaei's wife to visit”

But a prison insider said "Keeping him locked up with someone old and frail means there is less chance of him being beaten up.

"It wouldn't be safe to keep him with anyone younger because there are so many people out to get him."

It was revealed last week that Dizaei was moved to Usk, in Monmouthshire, Wales, after an earlier prison attack.

Contents of a cell slopping-out bucket were poured over his head and he was beaten unconscious three days after arriving at Edmunds Hill jail, Suffolk.

Before that he was in solitary confinement at London's Wandsworth.

Usk specialises in sex offenders and is a long way for Dizaei's wife to visit. But it is the first place he has felt safe in.

Iranian-born Dizaei was convicted of misconduct in public office and perverting justice after getting web designer Waad al-Baghdadi, 24, falsely arrested by claiming he was attacked.

The Iraqi had confronted him at a restaurant in 2008 after he was not paid £600 owed for a personal website.