A man who stabbed his fellow inmate was suffering from paranoid thoughts at the time of the offence, a court heard.
Daniel Berry, 33, of no fixed abode, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday for one count of unlawful wounding and one count of unlawful possession of a bladed article in prison. A court heard that in HMP Altcourse on November 22, 2021 Berry launched an unprovoked attack on fellow inmate Dean Kenton with a makeshift weapon.
Francis Wilmot, prosecuting, detailed that Berry had been in his cell prior to the incident and believed he heard the person outside his cell, Dean Kenton, making threats towards him. He was given the weapon by another inmate on the same prison wing as he was scared Mr Kenton would attack him.
