Court put in lockdown as dangerous 'dirty protest' transexual prisoner appears in dock half naked
dailyrecord.co.ukA courtroom was put into lockdown today for the sentencing of a transexual prisoner said to be one of the most dangerous inmates in the whole of the Scottish prison system.
Tiffany Scott, formerly known as Andrew Burns, was led into the dock, half naked to the waist, wearing the remains of a shirt torn to shreds, before shouting vile abuse at a sheriff.
Scott, 26, smeared excrement over her cell, tore a drip needle out of his own arm, ripped up supposedly tear-proof clothing, and assaulted four warders and a prison nurse during days of "dirty protest" at Glenochil Prison , Clackmannanshire, which is renowned as one of Scotland's toughest jails.
He was found guilty of the outrages last week.The verdicts followed a trial held in his absence because he refused to leave his cell at Saughton Prison, Edinburgh, where he is now being held.
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