A notorious killer has been moved from jail to the state mental hospital at Carstairs amid claims that there is a price on his head.
Jamie Anderson is behind bars for savagely beating an innocent dad to death. And insiders at Kilmarnock prison, where he was held before his transfer, said he feared he would be killed in revenge for his crime.
A prison source said: “Anderson is just an absolute horror of a human being. He’s upset a few folk in the prison.
“Word started filtering round that there was a contract out on him for a fair bit of cash.
The lad he killed was completely innocent, from a nice family, and someone has taken exception to that. So he was a marked man.
“Next thing we hear he’s been shifted to Carstairs for mental health issues. Seems a bit odd.”
A source at Carstairs added: “We’ve heard the rumours about a bounty on Anderson at Kilmarnock but that’s not something we would discuss with him.
“He’s here to be assessed by psychiatrists. He’s a menace.”
Anderson, 37, was known for violence and already had 22 convictions when he killed dad-of-one Paul Mathieson in Renfrew in January 2018.
The two men had argued over a woman they had both dated, but they appeared to be on good terms when they met hours before the killing.
CCTV showed them hugging.
However, Anderson later followed Paul, lay in wait as he bought a pizza and attacked him yards from his front door.
He beat his victim to the ground and repeatedly kicked him in the throat.
Paul, 37, was taken to hospital with brain damage and blood in his lungs. He died days later.
Police studied CCTV to establish Paul’s last movements and interviewed everyone he had contact with.
The process produced a list of 22 suspects, including Anderson.
Officers searched the thug’s home. And when they examined the clothes he wore on the night of the killing, they found Paul’s DNA on one of his Nike trainers.
Anderson was charged with murder but pled guilty to the lesser charge of culpable homicide and was jailed last year for nine years.
