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| Killer admits murdering prisoner | |
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| A killer has admitted murdering a fellow inmate while on remand at Kilmarnock prison. | |
| David Martin, 20, kicked and stamped on Michael Cameron and poured boiling water over his head, in an attack captured on CCTV. | |
| A prison officer and a nurse witnessed the attack. The warder could not intervene until reinforcements arrived. | A prison officer and a nurse witnessed the attack. The warder could not intervene until reinforcements arrived. |
| Martin was on remand for murder at the time but the Crown accepted his plea to a reduced charge of culpable homicide. | Martin was on remand for murder at the time but the Crown accepted his plea to a reduced charge of culpable homicide. |
| Another prisoner, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was involved on the attack on Mr Cameron on 16 June, 2006 in a four-bed cell in HMP Kilmarnock's health wing. | |
| Mr Cameron was on remand at the time. | |
| Prison protocol | |
| Paul McBride QC said prison officer Craig Brennan wanted to stop the attack but was ordered by a superior not to enter the cell until reinforcements arrived. | |
| Mr Brennan's boss was concerned for the safety of his staff. | |
| Prison protocol dictates three custody officers should restrain any one prisoner. | |
| The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) said it would not have expected any staff in its establishments to have intervened in such an incident. | |
| An investigation has been held. A spokesman said its conclusions would not be made public at this time. | |
| Mr McBride said after Martin had been restrained he attacked Mr Cameron again. | |
| He said the accident and emergency doctor who attended to Mr Cameron at Crosshouse Hospital had rarely seen injuries of such severity. | |
| The murder happened three months after Martin was remanded for the murder of his mother's former boyfriend, Gilbert Grierson, 46, in Irvine in March 2006. | |
| Martin admitted a lesser charge of culpable homicide by killing Grierson with knives, scissors, a frying pan and a bottle and then setting his home on fire. | |
| He will be sentenced next month. |