A violent prisoner who slashed a fellow inmate after calling him “a pervert” has been jailed for six years and eight months.
At the High Court in Glasgow, 37-year-old Ryan Ingram admitted slashing 59-year-old Timothy McHallam.
The attack took place at E wing of Kilmarnock prison on July 28 last year at around 4.30pm.
Jailing Ingram on Friday, judge Lady Scott told him: “You have been assessed as very likely to re-offend with violence and extremely difficult to manage in prison.
“Your victim did nothing to you and required 20 stitches to his face. This was an unprovoked, senseless assault.”
Lady Scott ordered Ingram to be monitored in the community for seven years after his release from custody.
The court heard that Ingram walked past McHallam and slashed him.
McHallam immediately put his hand to his face and saw blood.
The two men exchanged words.
When asked what Ingram had said to him, McHallam told police: “He said something like pervert or paedophile.”
The violent incident was caught on CCTV.
Prosecutor Bill McVicar said: “The complainer was cut from below his ear to his mouth.
“He now has a significant scar on the right side of his face.
“When the accused was asked by prison staff where the weapon was he said he had “flushed it”.
The court heard that Ingram, who is now a prisoner at Grampian prison, has previous convictions for assault and robbery and possessing a weapon.
