NURSE ATTACK CON TAMED BY 11 GUARDS
Wee QTs shock Simon Prisoner deemed “too dangerous” for court accused of assaulting medical staff during hospital visit
SCOTTISH dance group QT CREW manage to fool Simon Cowell when they appear on Britain’s Got Talent tonight.
The 14 girls aged six to 10 go to a studio in Clydebank and first appear on the show in pink sparkly outfits.
Simon rolls his eyes as the girls begin performing what starts as a sweet version of old favourite My Boy Lollipop. But they quickly pull off the pink outfits to reveal a streetwise look underneath, the music changes and they switch to hip hop moves.
Judge Simon tells the girls: “I was sitting here thinking, ‘I’m losing the will to live’, when I heard My Boy Lollipop and then you fooled us. You’re like little mini ninjas – all of you.”
April Stuart-Macrae, 24, who owns the dance studio, ONE of Scotland’s most dangerous prisoners had to be wrestled to a hospital floor after he spat at nurses in a violent outburst.
Andrew Burns became so aggressive that medical staff refused to treat him. It took 11 security and prison officers to get him under control.
Burns, of Kinglassie, Fife, who last year claimed he was transgender and changed his name to Tiffany Scott, has form for attacking nurses.
It recently emerged charges against him for attacking a prison warden and a nurse were dropped because he is considered too dangerous for court.
It is unclear why Burns was at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary but sources say he has to be taken regularly for self harming, including swallowing razor blades.
He has spells of being taken to hospital twice a week and he frequently threatens medical staff trying to help him.
After last week’s incident, Burns was placed in solitary at Edinburgh’s Saughton Prison, which houses some of choreographed the routine and has been putting the girls through their paces in rehearsals – dancing herself despite being six months’ pregnant. She chuckled: “We fooled everybody. The kids are used to just doing hip hop but I told them for Britain’s Got Talent we’re going to do something different.” Britain’s Got Talent is tonight at 8pm on STV the most dangerous men in Scotland. Now prison staff are outraged after an investigation was launched into their handling of Burns.
One source said: “Staff morale is at an all-time low. Burns is out of control and staff were trying to protect frightened nurses. They did what they had to and didn’t use excessive force. Burns is impossible for everyone dealing with him.”
Burns, who is an inmate at Glenochil Prison in Fife, has convictions for making false allegations against prison officers.
Leaked documents reveal a recent case against him was scrapped because he is considered an extreme threat to the public.
The report from a senior Crown Office official argued it was not in the public interest to pursue the case because “the potential for harm is too grave”.
The decision has brought a furious reaction from unions, whose members were victims of the attack.
Burns, who has a series of convictions for violence, had been accused of attacking a warden and a female nurse in Glenochil jail near Alloa.
He also assaulted a nurse when he escaped from a hospital in Crewe, Cheshire, in 2010.
Other incidents include him biting open veins in his arm and spraying people with his blood.
A spokesman for the Scottish Prison Service said they did not comment on individual prisoners.