A prisoner who struck a fellow inmate with a blade received a life sentence on Monday.
Damian Fowler, 44, pounced on Jonathan Burns on Glenesk wing at HMP Edinburgh on May 25, 2021. Court papers state Fowler hit his victim on the neck and body to his injury and permanent disfigurement with a sharp instrument.
Fowler was put on an order for lifelong restriction with a minimum punishment period of two years and three months at the High Court in Glasgow. Judge Lord Fairley told him: "You have psychotic traits.
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"The nature, seriousness and patterns of your behaviour indicate a propensity to risk the lives of the public at large. You have not engaged to work on your offending behaviour.
"An order for lifelong restriction is necessary to protect the public from the serious risk you present." Fowler has appeared in court before for another prison attack in 2012 after sticking a sharp object in Mugo Dalmar's cheek.
He suffered "substantial blood loss and significant scarring." Fowler had been locked up for 32 months at the time for an assault to injury and permanent disfigurement.
His previous convictions also include putting a carving fork to the neck of a terrified shop assistant in 2001 during an hour pass as a psychiatric patient in Edinburgh.
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