Gangland killer jailed for eight years for prison attacks
BBC News Published image captionDavid Scott had eight years added to his minimum 22-year life term for murder A gangland killer has been sentenced to eight years for attacking a rival in jail, just weeks after he cut off another inmate's ear. David Scott, 36, slashed Paul Lyons in the visiting room at HMP Perth in December 2019. It followed an earlier knife attack on Dale Thomas at HMP Edinburgh. Scott, who was already serving 22 years for the "execution" of Euan Johnston in 2016, admitted the attacks at at High Court in Glasgow. The court heard that Scott believed Lyons and Thomas "bore ill ...