A person charged with petrol bombing a home in Greenock has been left injured after being ‘slashed’ in jail.
Craig MacFarlane was reportedly knifed whereas standing on a communal hallway touchdown at HMP Greenock on Saturday afternoon.
The 26-year-old is known to have suffered accidents to his face and physique after he was additionally allegedly punched and kicked by a fellow inmate.
A supply informed the Day by day File that he required stitches for the knife wounds, which aren't believed to be life-threatening.
MacFarlane is on remand on the jail after being charged with torching a property on Greenock’s Union Road in July 2020.
Prosecutors declare he did “wilfully set hearth to fabric inside glass bottles containing accelerant, generally generally known as a petroleum bomb”.
The cost in opposition to him alleges that he then threw a variety of Molotov cocktails on the property ensuing within the window body and curtain catching hearth.
MacFarlane can also be accused of trying to homicide Rosaleen Sutherland and Leonard Cole, who have been in the home on the time.
He made no plea throughout two non-public appearances at Greenock Sheriff Courtroom and was remanded in custody.
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He's anticipated to face trial alongside six different males later this yr on a homicide conspiracy rap.
We beforehand informed how co-accused Robert Warnock, 25, was left critically injured at HMP Addiewell final month after he was additionally attacked with a blade.
Various properties in Greenock have been broken in the course of the spate of fireplace assaults.
One man, George Miller, 46, misplaced his life after by chance setting himself on hearth throughout an alleged assault on the Union Road property on September 14, 2020.
A Police Scotland spokesperson mentioned: “On Tuesday 22 March, 2022, police obtained a report of an assault of a 26-year-old man. "Enquiries are ongoing.”
And a spokesperson for the jail added: “The Scottish Jail Service doesn't touch upon particular person prisoners.”
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