Fife grandmother’s murderer gets six months for prison attack

A notorious murderer serving life was sentenced to a further six months behind bars for punching another inmate in Scotland’s only all-female jail.

Nicolle Earley was jailed as a teen for killing a grandmother during a row over £5 and a borrowed cigarette

Now 24, Earley was just 16 when she booted and stamped 63-year-old Ann Gray to death at her home in Crosshill, Fife in 2008.

Two-and-a-half years ago she was given an additional 18-month sentence after she sent letters covered in blood and scrawled with swastikas threatening to torture and kill a solicitor and a woman whom she had a grudge against.

She appeared for sentence at Stirling Sheriff Court on Wednesday after pleading guilty to assaulting a fellow inmate at Cornton Vale Prison, near Stirling, where she is serving her sentence.

She assaulted Melissa Sloan, by repeatedly punching her on the head in the incident in the all-female jail.

Miss Sloan, 32, of Paisley, Renfrewshire, is understood to have been released since the assault she received at Earley’s hands, which occurred on November 14 last year.