A father-of-ten from Fife jailed for trying to kill a woman on Christmas Day has died behind bars.
The Scottish Prison Service announced the death in Glenochil Prison of Robert Carr, 45, almost five years after his horrific crime.
Carr, from Glenrothes, battered his victim with wooden table legs and throttled her in 2015.
The terrified 20-year-old woman was found by paramedics crouching behind a parked car, covered in blood and shaking badly after fleeing her home in Lochgelly, where Carr had attacked her.
He was jailed for 10 years after he admitted a string of offences including attempted murder in March 2017.
A further post-release three-year supervision order was imposed.
Fatal Accident Inquiry
The cause of his death half way through his sentence is unknown but a mandatory fatal accident inquiry will take place.
The Scottish Prison Service confirmed: “Robert Carr, 45, a prisoner at HMP Glenochil has died on 12 December 2022.
“He was sentenced at Edinburgh High Court in 2017.
“Police Scotland have been advised and the matter reported to the Procurator Fiscal.
“A Fatal Accident Inquiry will be held in due course.”
Christmas murder bid
The High Court in Edinburgh heard after trying to kill the woman – who cannot be named for legal reasons – he sent messages to her, initially saying “love u” and then “Why did u send the police to my door”.
He also messaged her mother asking if his victim was okay as he had “just not heard from her”.
The pair had been drinking on Christmas Eve and he began to abuse her after they woke the next day.
Advocate depute Ian Wallace said: “He then picked up a wooden table, turned it upside down and ripped the legs off it.
“He took a table leg in each hand and repeatedly struck her on the head with them.”
Shot victim in head
Carr admitted a further nine assault charges committed between 2003 and 2015 at addresses in Glenrothes, Kirkcaldy, Lochgelly and the former T in the Park site at Ballado, Kinross.
All were against women, two of whom were pregnant at the time.
Carr told one woman he would “shut her up permanently”, punched her in the face and struck her with a thick church candle until she passed out.
On another occasion, his victim was at a party where children were present when Carr turned up uninvited and constructed a gas-propelled pellet gun, with which he shot the party host the party in the hand.
He then turned on his previous assault victim and shot her in the head and shoulder.
She lunged at him and he shot her in the head again, before chasing her outside, still firing at her.
She later had a pellet removed from her head and another from her shoulder but a third pellet in her shoulder could not be extracted.
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