The brute who murdered nurse Karen Buckley after picking her up outside a Glasgow nightclub has been cleared of staging a prison riot.
Alexander Pacteau was accused of being among inmates who clashed with police and prison officers while serving life for killing the 24-year-old and then trying to dissolve her body in a bath of caustic soda at his home in Kelvindale.
He had been due to appear at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court this week, but dodged making a personal appearance after taking ill in jail. He was cleared of behaving in a threatening or abusive way over the incident in the E wing at Kilmarnock prison in 2019 after three others pled guilty, the Daily Record reports.
