A prisoner who tried to murder a man in an unprovoked knife attack went on the run after being granted home leave.
Ryan Stewart, 34, spent days at large after prison chiefs granted him a week-long leave from Castle Huntly.
Dundee Sheriff Court was told Stewart – who was serving eight and a half years for attempted murder – had been let out on several occasions.
The court heard he spent the leave periods in a homeless unit in Perth.
Fiscal depute Marie Irvine said a police manhunt was mounted after he failed to catch a bus back to prison on March 4 and he was found three days later.
Solicitor John McLaughlin, defending, said Stewart had been beaten up behind bars after failing to bring drugs back after his fifth home leave.
Sheriff Lorna Drummond added six months to his sentence.
Stewart was jailed in 2016 at the High Court in Edinburgh for a “brutal and unprovoked” knife attack on 24-year-old Dale McDonald in Perth.
