Then Andrew Burns (Tiffany Scott) sought transfer to Cornton Vale. He is one of only one hundred or so prisoners in Scotland classified as so dangerous that his sentence is indefinite. He has held dirty protests, assaulted prison officers, slashed a cellmate’s face with a razor and bitten open his own veins to spray staff with blood. Three officers guard him when he is outside his cell, and when he was brought from prison to court for sentencing, it was locked down and prison staff wore full protective gear. In the end the transfer was denied because Scott was deemed too dangerous to be moved
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