Man who stabbed brother with peeler beat fellow inmate

A YOUNG killer jailed for stabbing his brother with a potato peeler has been given an extra sentence for attacking a fellow prisoner.

Jazzie Watson, 21, violently beat the inmate behind bars at Cardiff Prison, where he is serving a life sentence for the chilling murder of his younger brother.

Watson was jailed two years ago for stabbing his 17-year-old brother Shamus McNama to death with a potato peeler following a family argument.

He appeared at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court to plead guilty to assaulting fellow prisoner Brian Ward, and was sentenced to four months.

His latest sentence will be served concurrently, meaning it won’t extend his whole-life term for murdering his younger sibling.

The brothers had brawled when Watson disapproved of the way Shamus spoke to their mother during a row about taking her car without permission.

The boys exchanged punches and wrestled before Watson grabbed the small peeler and repeatedly knifed his brother 10 times at their home in Stothard Road, Lockleaze, Bristol.

Shamus – described as “inseparable” from his sibling – was studying bricklaying at college and was due to become a father.

He died at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, while Watson went on the run – but he later handed himself over to police later the same morning.

Watson pleaded guilty to murder at Bristol Crown Court, where Judge Neil Ford QC said he had acted “in an extremely violent way with a knife in an explosion of temper”.

The judge said: “You have taken the life of your half-brother, who you loved. You have deprived your mother of a son and your siblings of a brother.

“You have also added to your own mother’s grief by ruining your own life. The anguish which you have caused is immeasurable.”

Watson was jailed for life with a minimum of 11 years and three months.

His mum, Paula McNama, 45, surprisingly later said she would stand by him “100%”, and called her younger son’s murder a “horrible and stupid tragedy”.

She said: “I am there 100% for him. His life will never be the same again and I still love him so much.

“He has got to carry this with him – that was his little brother and a mistake has cost him dearly.

“He knows what he did was wrong, but his biggest punishment is losing his younger brother.”