THE ringleader of Britain’s worst-ever child grooming gang has been left scarred for life in a jail attack.

Monster Ahdel Ali, 31, needed FORTY stitches after being targeted with a makeshift knife by another con.

3 Ahdel Ali, 31, needed 40 stitches in a deep wound from after being targeted by another inmate

The beast, who led a child sex racket in Telford before being caught, was left with a deep wound running from his neck to his shoulder and was rushed to hospital for treatment.

Sources said his attacker had used two razor blades embedded in a strip of cardboard as a weapon. Police were last night investigating.

One source said the incident had been sparked by a simmering row between Ali and another inmate at Wakefield top security jail, West Yorks, on October 21.

They revealed: “Ali and the other lad had a bit of a ruck earlier in the day.

3 Ahdel Ali was convicted for running a child sex racket in Telford Credit: Newsteam

“Prison officers split them up but they were still furious with each other. The other inmate went back to his cell later on and it had been covered in excrement.

“He flipped, blamed Ali and went straight back for him with the blade. It was a really nasty wound - Ali lost a lot of blood.

“He went to hospital and had around 40 stitches before being taken back to prison.”

Ali is serving 18 years for his role in the scandal in Telford, Shrops, which may have claimed as many as 1,000 young victims.

3 Insiders claim the incident had been sparked by a row between Ali and another inmate at HMP Wakefield Credit: PA:Press Association

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While sex grooming rings in Rotherham targeted around 1,500 victims, it was in a community of around 260,000. By contrast, Telford’s population is just 170,000.

Seven men were jailed in 2013 following Operation Chalice, a police probe into child prostitution in the Telford area. But the investigation found there may have been as many as 200 attackers involved.

Ringleaders Ali and his brother Mubarek, 35, sold teenage girls, some as young as 13, for sex above an Indian restaurant after grooming them.

A Prison Service spokeswoman said: “A prisoner at HMP Wakefield was assaulted on October 21 by a fellow prisoner and this is now being investigated by police.”

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