Notorious - Scotland's infamous prisoners: Angry and violent cons rebelled at crumbling 'hate factory' jail

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banged up a year for killing a man in a revenge attack and was incarcerated hundreds of miles from family in the “hate factory”.It was September 28, 1987, and Leggat, then 24, was enraged when he was put on minor report so he stabbed a prison officer in the leg and threw hot fat over him.Sammy “The Bear” Ralston, who was serving a six-year sentence for armed robbery, watched as other prisoners in Peterhead’s D Wing took advantage of the fracas.Ralston decided he was joining in.John “Jake” Devine was serving time for serious assault and Douglas Matthewson, who had been caged for killing a beauty queen, wanted in on the action, too.Peterhead was home to some of Scotland’s worst sex offenders and murderers.It was built in Victorian times on a.