A “high risk” domestic abuser who brutally attacked and stalked his ex-partner was allowed to write her a string of threatening letters from his jail cell because reading his mail would violate his human rights.
Brian Edwards, 29, was jailed in September after former partner Kirsty Knowlson reported him to police for a catalogue of abuse which included him choking her until she fell unconscious in front of her son.
Edwards wrote to her three times from his cell, blaming her for “having me in here on my birthday”.
Jail bosses confirmed they do not censor mail because inmates have a “right to privacy”.
Edwards, a prisoner at Perth, pleaded guilty on indictment at Dundee Sheriff Court to stalking Miss Knowlson between July 1 and November 5 last year and to assaulting her to her injury on a date between July 1 and September 24 last year.
Sheriff Elizabeth Munro deferred sentence until next month for reports and remanded Edwards in custody.
A spokesman for the Scottish Prison Service said: “We do not routinely censor mail.
“If we are told by someone that they are receiving unwanted mail we will prevent prisoners from writing to that address.”
