A MURDERER who slaughtered a person with knives and scissors has had 20 days added to his life time period after a jail wrecking spree.
Thug Christopher Lawson was caged for no less than 16 years after he admitted finishing up the lethal assault on susceptible Steven Clark in 2019.
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Vile Lawson choked and stabbed his 45-year-old sufferer in his own residence in Maryhill, Glasgow earlier than boasting about committing a “first diploma homicide”.
Lawson, 22, was again earlier than the courtroom this week when he admitted to inflicting lots of of kilos price of injury in Polmont.
Falkirk Sheriff Courtroom heard how he tipped over a pool desk and ripped telephones from partitions moments after being informed of a relative’s dying.
Lawson’s rage additionally noticed him goal desk tennis courts as he was seen wielding what was described as “a metallic pole”.
In complete the harm brought about throughout the tirade amounted to round £1,550.
Lawson, who watched proceedings from a video hyperlink, admitted pushing over pool tables and desk tennis tables in addition to destroying telephones throughout his jail corridor blitz on September 22 final yr.
Defence solicitor Ian Sievwright informed the courtroom his consumer had spent 37 days in solitary confinement on account of his outburst, in addition to shedding earnings and recreation perks.
He mentioned the “most notable” case in his previous was a excessive courtroom sentence in January final yr when he was given life.
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He added: “He did obtain some dangerous information by phone about ten minutes earlier than the incident happened.
“He was informed his uncle, with whom he was very shut, had handed away.
“He misplaced his composure.
“He then took his anger out on the corridor.”
Mr Sievwright urged the courtroom to contemplate operating any sentence alongside his present jail time however Sheriff Craig Harris was not persuaded.
He informed Lawson: “Mr Lawson, I take into account that imposing a concurrent sentence would give the impression to you that your behaviour would haven’t any materials impression on the sentence that you’re presently serving and that might not be appropriate.”
He hit Lawson with an additional 20 days decreased from 30 as a result of his responsible plea, to be added to the punishment a part of his life time period.
Lawson was informed in January 2019 he should serve no less than 16 years and two months earlier than he can apply for parole.
The excessive courtroom in Paisley heard how Lawson – whereas being held in Glasgow’s Govan police station two days after the assault – made feedback to police custody officer James Thompson.
Mr Thompson informed prosecutor Greg Farrell: “As we had been strolling, he said he had had his final cigarette for the following 20 years.
“He mentioned he had carried out a ‘first diploma homicide’.
“He mentioned he had ‘carried out it for his sister’ and that it ‘needed to be carried out’.”
Mr Thompson initially thought the feedback had been “unusual” as they had been like one thing from an “American TV present”.
A neighbour of Mr Clark earlier informed the trial how she had seen Lawson and one other man, yelling up on the sufferer’s window shortly earlier than the homicide.
She mentioned: “They had been shouting ‘Clarky’.
“I heard ‘you higher let me in, you soiled, fats b*d’.
“You owe me cash. If you don’t give me the cash, I’m going to get you carried out in’.
The courtroom was additionally proven throughout the trial horrific photographs of Mr Clark’s lifeless physique mendacity in his dwelling.
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