Row with scalding water nets killer extra 14 months
A Shotts prisoner serving a life sentence for a brutal murder has been ordered to serve an extra 14 months for scalding an inmate.
Brute David McCaig, 27, pleaded guilty to throwing a kettle of boiling water over Steven Dickson at Allanton Hall within the HMP Shotts on January last year.
The court heard how the two inmates had been arguing prior to the alarming incident causing McCaig to react.
After the disagreement murderer McCaig appeared behind Dickson with a kettle filled with boiling water and poured it over his head.
Dickson’s skin was scaled, causing his eyes, cheeks and nose to become very red and blistered. There was no lasting scars. David McCaig, alongside his cousin John Edgar, battered and stabbed chef John Jenkins to death while high on drink and drugs in 2007.
He was ordered to serve a minimum of 10 years at the High Court in Edinburgh after he randomly attacked the victim as he walked to work in Livingston.
McCaig was due to be released from prison on December 3.
His lawyer told the court his client regrets what happened and knows now violence is not the answer.
He said he has found a renowned hope and has been desperately trying to reconnect with his family in the hope of meeting them when he is released.
He believes they will help him lead a better life.
Sheriff David Bicket sentenced McCaig to an extra 14 months behind bars.