Stuart Robertson, 46, was attacked by Moses Kashita, 26, with a razor blade inside HMP Shotts, Lanarkshire.
A gangland killer was scarred for life after he was slashed in a brutal revenge attack behind bars.
Stuart Robertson, 46, was attacked by Moses Kashita, 26, with a razor blade inside HMP Shotts, Lanarkshire. Robertson had been sitting with inmates when Kashita ambushed him and cut him on the cheek.
He was treated for a five inch scar in January 2024 while Kashita was thrown into solitary confinement and lost all privileges for a month. Kashita, now being held in HMP Kilmarnock, appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court and admitted assaulting Robertson to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement.
Sheriff Linda Nicolson ordered Kashita, previously jailed for attempting to murder a woman, to serve 30 months but that it will run consecutively to his present 16 year term.
Depute fiscal Daisy Bentley said: “Mr Robertson was in the association area and was mingling with other prisoners before taking a seat in the shared space. Mr Kashita also entered the association area accompanied by other prisoners and walked around the area.
“Mr Kashita then walked away from his group and walked slowly towards Mr Robertson and came to a stop directly behind him. Mr Robertson was completely unaware of Mr Kashita’s presence and continued talking to the group of prisoners he was talking to and Mr Kashita then removed his right hand from the front of his trousers and lunged towards Mr Robertson.
“He drew a blade of a shaving razor across his right cheek towards his ear and Mr Robertson then broke away and grabbed for the wall.”
Lorna Clark, defending, said: “The position is that the complainer had previously assaulted Mr Kashita and was making ongoing threats of harm towards him. Mr Kashita, in fear of a man capable of serious violence, wrongly took matters into his own hands and committed the offence.”
Sheriff Nicolson said: “I have taken on board all that has been said and your position that you have put forward but against that this is a very serious offence occurring in a prison and against a backdrop of your serious previous conviction. It can only be marked by a custodial sentence.”
Robertson was jailed after blasting rival Jim McDonald to death in May 2007. The pair had been part of a long-standing drugs feud which had also claimed the lives of two other men in Pollok, Glasgow.
The feud dates back to April 2002 when McDonald’s brother Derek was fatally stabbed outside his Pollok home. Kashita was jailed after shooting Felicia Samuel in Glasgow’s Charing Cross in December 2020.
His earliest release date is in 2037.
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