A VIOLENT sex offender has been given a six-month prison term for assaulting a convicted paedophile at HMP Glenochil earlier this year.

Jason Mulheron, who has previous convictions for sexual assault, admitted the charge when he appeared from custody at Alloa Sheriff Court on Monday (20 April).

On 12 February he attacked Scott Bambrick by striking him on the head with a household iron and making repeated attempts to punch him on the head.

His victim, who was convicted of sexually-assaulting a three-year-old girl while babysitting, was sent to the Clacks prison in 2013 on a six-year stretch.

At the time of the assault, Mulheron was said to have been subject of a Sex Offender’s Order, imposed on him at the High Court in Edinburgh on June 2008.

He also had at least two previous convictions for sexual assault, which took place in the south side of Glasgow.

He appeared before Sheriff Gillian Wade this week and pleaded guilty to the Glenochil assault at what was the first hearing.

The court heard that Mulheron was not likely to be released ‘any time soon’ and so any sentence given would not serious affect his release date.

Nevertheless, Sheriff Wade said she was ‘required to mark the offence with an appropriate sentence’ and handed him a six-month jail term, reduced from nine months due to his early plea.

Mulheron was previously jailed for seven years in 2000 for the attempted rape of a 26-year-old woman in Glasgow’s Mount Florida rail station in 1999.

He was released on licence in 2004 and was still on the sex offenders’ register when he carried out another violent attack on a 44-year-old woman near Glasgow’s Queen’s Park in April 2008.

Similar to the 1999 incident, he walked up behind his victim, threatening to kill and rape her before punching her in the face and sexually-assaulting her.

At sentencing, Mulheron was told he would spend at least five years in jail for the 2008 offence.

He was further placed on a life-long restriction order which states he will only be freed when a parole board considers it safe for him to be within the community.