AN INMATE is facing further jail time after scalding a fellow prisoner with sugar and boiling water.

Vincent Robertson, 54, was seen carrying a kettle into a HMP Glenochil cell which had been occupied at the time by James Kerr Cowan – grandson of the late Big Mags Haney.

Prosecutor Graham McLachlan said Robertson then "left quickly" and warders were alerted that something was wrong by "shouts and screams".

Kerr Cowan, then 40, was found with second-degree burns on his chest and abdomen that were beginning to blister.

He was given first aid by a jail nurse before being sent to hospital where he was treated and sent back to the prison.

The incident occurred on February 24 last year (2016).

Mr McLachlan told Alloa Sheriff Court last Tuesday, February 28, that Robertson was serving a sentence imposed at Dundee.

He was freed in September on a supervised release order, and was now subject to recall.

Roberston, from Fife, whose address was given on court papers as Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow, appeared from custody and pleaded guilty to assaulting Kerr Cowan to his injury.

Sheriff Craig Caldwell deferred sentence for reports until March 23.

He told Robertson: "This is an extremely serious offence. Significant injury may have been caused to this other man, whatever offence he may have caused you. A custodial sentence is almost inevitable."

Kerr Cowan hit the headlines in 2014 when police found him near shops in Raploch, Stirling, "in a state of agitation" with a Stanley knife hidden between his buttocks.

Despite over 100 previous convictions, he was, on that occasion, sentenced to supervision, after he admitted possessing a bladed weapon.