Inmate hurled mug full of faeces in female prison officer's hair The inmate laughed after the disgusting attack at HMP Altcourse 19:57, 26 FEB 2021 Updated HMP Altcourse, Liverpool, Merseyside A thug hurled a mug full of faeces in a female prison officer's hair then laughed at her ordeal. Robert Patterson was jailed for life after slashing one man across the face and slicing open another victim's arm. Then 31, he was told to serve a minimum of six years behind bars when sentenced for a brutal rampage in 1999. But he has spent most of the last 22 years behind bars and was recalled to HMP Altcourse in Fazakerly again last January.