A infamous Scottish gangland killer has admitted being caught with a cell phone behind bars - for the third time.
Paul Lyons, 41, was caught with an iPhone in his cell at excessive safety HMP Shotts, Lanarkshire. Jail officers carried out a random search and found the gadget stashed inside a hidden compartment of a field.
Lyons, who was jailed in 2010 for a road-rage killing, appeared through video hyperlink from HMP Kilmarnock at Hamilton Sheriff Court docket.
He admitted a cost of possessing a communication gadget whereas within the jail in October 2021. Prosecutors dropped a cost alleging he additionally had a SIM card.
Talking from the jail, Lyons mentioned: "I misplaced my parole by means of this as a result of I used to be up in Might this 12 months however my earliest launch is now December 2024."
Depute fiscal Tiffany Chisholm informed the courtroom: "A search was carried out of the accused's cell and he was compliant throughout the search.
"Jail officers requested if the accused's property inside the cell was all his and he replied 'sure'. He was then requested if there have been any gadgets within the cell which he mustn't should which he replied 'no'.
"In the course of the course of the cell search a field was found to have a secret compartment and inside this compartment was an iPhone. This was seized and given to jail safety whereas the accused made no remark to any of the fees."
Rosemary Robinson, defending, mentioned: "He's serving a prolonged sentence which restricts the choices accessible to the courtroom."
Sheriff James Spy handed Lyons a six-month sentence which is able to run alongside his present 12-year time period for culpable murder.
Final 12 months Lyons admitted having a cellphone behind bars in HMP Perth. He mentioned he had the illicit smartphone after he was attacked by one other inmate. Officers discovered the gadget hidden beneath a false backside in a wastepaper basket in his cell.
In 2018, he was caught hiding a bootleg cell phone in his underwear in the identical jail. He mentioned he wanted the cell as a result of he missed his household.
Final 12 months, prisoner David Scott was jailed for eight years for assaulting Lyons in a vicious jail assault. He pounced on him in a visiting room at HMP Perth in entrance of shocked youngsters and slashed a significant artery in his neck.
Lyons was jailed on the Excessive Court docket in 2010 for killing Mark Fleeman, 32, in a 100 miles per hour street rage assault.
He consumed a cocktail of alcohol and medicines earlier than he rammed the father-of-two off the M74 in Lanarkshire.
Fleeman, from Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, died when his van was despatched careering throughout the street close to Larkhall. Lyons, a well known determine in the Glasgow underworld, fled to Spain after the killing.
Nonetheless, he was extradited again to Scotland after being arrested, and later pled responsible to culpable murder and trying to defeat the ends of justice.
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