A prisoner who slashed a fellow inmate with a razor blade has been handed a further jail sentence.
Ryan Ingram attacked Jason Forrest at Perth Prison on December 2 2013.
The assault left Forrest needing treatment for cuts measuring as much as three and a half inches.
Perth Sheriff Court was told by Ingram’s solicitor that he was a “vulnerable” individual who used razor blades to self-harm. After the attack, Ingram, 32, told prison officers he was carrying a second blade for this purpose.
The solicitor said Ingram had launched the attack in defence of another prisoner, who had originally appeared in the dock with him, and wrestled the blade from Forrest.
He said: “Mr Ingram had been taken under the wing of the man who would have been his co-accused.
“He was not the person who brought the razor blade into the cell but he accepts it doesn’t amount to self-defence because the complainer was on the way out of the cell when he was attacked.”
He added that Forest had suffered no permanent disfigurement as a result of the attack.
Ingram had earlier been found guilty of assaulting Forrest by repeatedly punching him, striking him with the razor blade and a pool cue and of possessing a razor blade.
Sheriff Fiona Tait ordered Ingram to serve a further 32 months on top of his current sentence.