Allen Stanford beaten up by jail inmates as he awaits trial

[The Giant Noodle]

Karma is a bee-yotch, no?

Bloodied and bruised, this is the shocking picture of cricket tycoon Allen Stanford after a beating by jail inmates.
His neck in a brace, his eye bleeding and half-closed and his head bandaged.
The final humiliation for Stanford, 60, awaiting trial accused of masterminding a $7billion fraud, was his feet and hands were shackled as he was taken to hospital.

Attacked: The tycoon sits on a hospital trolley with his neck in a brace, his eye half-shut and a bandage wrapped around his head after the assault by jail prisoners in Texas

Shackled: Allen Stanford is bound hand and foot at the hospital near Houston

Once he posed with a perspex case containing $20million at Lord's cricket ground. after being hailed as the saviour of English cricket.
But that counted for nothing at the private prison in Conroe near Houston, Texas, and the inmates sharing his cell.
'I was on the telephone and some of the other people in the cell didn't like it,' he told a friend who visited him, according to the Sunday Times.
'They said something to me and then two of them jumped me and kept punching me and kicking me in the head.
'I lost consciousness, but at one time I came round and grabbed one of them by the leg. That just set them off a again'.
The guards burst into the cell and shackled Stanford before taking him to a hospital where he underwent an operation while still chained up.

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