Jail kettle revenge attackon razor con
Inmate poured kettle over thug after she slashed him
TRANSSEXUAL prisoner Tiffany Scott, previously Andrew Burns, needs treatment for scalding injuries after a revenge attack at Edinburgh’s Saughton Prison.
A PRISONER had boiling water thrown over her after she slashed a fellow inmate.
Transgender Tiffany Scott, previously Andrew Burns, was badly hurt in the revenge attack at Saughton jail in Edinburgh.
Minutes earlier, she had slashed a convict with a razor blade during an argument over a mirror.
The victim quickly boiled a kettle in his cell and tipped the steaming water over Scott.
The slashed con had a wound running the length of his face. He needed 18 stitches and is permanently scarred.
Scott is now back in Saughton, where she is kept in a male wing, despite claiming to be a woman.
The partner of the slashed inmate said: “He saw Scott with a razor. It looked like one from a disposable shaving razor.
“My partner tried to grab a chair to protect himself but Scott managed to grab him and slash the side of his face and across the chin. He boiled a kettle, went and found her and threw it.
“I think my partner had borrowed a mirror from her and she’d come to take it back.”
The slashed con is serving a seven-year sentence.
In April, Scott, 26, had to be wrestled to the floor in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary after spitting at nurses. It took 11 security and prison officers to get her under control.
Four months later, a courtroom was put into lockdown for safety reasons when she appeared for sentencing.
Earlier, she had been found guilty of smearing excrement over her cell and assaulting four warders and a prison nurse at Glenochil jail in Clackmannanshire.
Scott has a string of convictions for crimes including assaults, vandalism and resisting arrests.
She is subject to an Order for Lifelong Restriction, so she will only be freed when no longer considered a risk to public safety.
The Scottish Prison Service would not comment on the Saughton incidents.