A prisoner has been detained under the Mental Health Act after he squirted urine and faeces in a Nottinghamshire prison. Steven Gascoine was a serving prisoner at the time for offences of robbery and possessing a bladed article, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
In January he was convicted of administering a noxious thing - of squirting urine or a mixture of urine or faeces from a bottle through a a crack or hatch in his celll door - one at HM Prison Thameside, south-east London, and the second time was at Lowdham Grange, Nottinghamshire.
The substance on each occasion struck a man and woman who were, "not surprinsingly upset and disgusted by what happened," said Judge William Harbage KC on Thursday (April 20). They had to change their clothes and wash themselves, with the judge adding, "It's a disgusting thing to do".
