R. Kelly was hospitalized in what lawyers call an ongoing prison assassination plot

CHICAGO – Lawyers representing disgraced musician R Kelly claim there is a plot to kill him by prison guards, after he was hospitalised last week for overdosing on medication.

In court documents, the musician’s attorney, Beau B. Brindley, claimed that Bureau of Prisons staff at his federal center in Butner, North Carolina, intentionally gave him too much medication, which caused him to overdose and be transferred to a nearby hospital.

While Kelly was in the ambulance, he allegedly heard a prison officer say, “This is going to open a whole new can of worms.”

At the hospital, Kelly allegedly learned that he had been administered “an overdose quantity of his medications that threatened his life,” according to his lawyer.

Kelly’s lawyers called the alleged overdose a “plot to take Mr. Kelly’s life,” also claiming prison staff ignored blood clots Kelly had complained about in his leg, alleging they refused to let doctors perform surgery on him after they discovered the clots during his hospitalization for the overdose.

“When advised he required surgery and needed to be kept for two weeks, officers assigned to Mr. Kelly in the hospital contacted the officials at Butner,” Brindley stated in the docs.

“Within an hour, officers with guns came into his hospital room and removed Mr. Kelly. He was taken from the hospital against his will and against the directives of the doctors.”

Brindley insisted that Kelly, who was returned to solitary confinement, was in imminent danger.

“It is undeniable. Mr. Kelly’s life is in jeopardy right now because the Bureau of Prisons denied him necessary surgery to clear clots from his lungs,” Bridley went on to say. “He could die from this condition, and they are letting it happen.”

Monday’s filing came after an emergency motion by Kelly’s lawyers in which they alleged that three Bureau of Prisons officials had orchestrated a plot to have him killed by another inmate. That motion requested that Kelly be released to home detention.

Federal prosecutors have opposed that request.

“Kelly is a prolific child molester,” the prosecutors wrote. “He is unapologetic about it. Kelly has never taken responsibility for his years of sexually abusing children, and he probably never will.

“Kelly now asks this court to release him from incarceration indefinitely under the guise of a fanciful conspiracy,” the prosecutors added. “Kelly’s motion makes a mockery of the harm suffered by Kelly’s victims.”