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| Inmate Too Evil For Jail |
| By The UK Daily Record |
| Published: 09/26/2005 |
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A double murderer in the United Kingdom faces spending the rest of his life in solitary confinement because he is too dangerous for normal jail. Billy Lewis is so violent that officers have to put on full riot gear before taking him to the showers in handcuffs. And to protect staff, the former street thug is moved around constantly between segregation units at several of Scotland's high-security jails. So far, Lewis has attacked at least four prison officers and caused two prison riots. He slashed three warders in 2003 during a riot he started at Shotts prison. Lewis then got hold of the officers' home phone numbers and called them from jail to threaten to murder them. Advertisement He also told them he would recruit convicted paedophiles to rape their children. Lewis is shipped every few months between segregation units at Kilmarnock, Shotts, Barlinnie, Glenochil and Perth, where he is currently held. Prison staff believes keeping him on the move is the only way to make sure he does not start another riot. A prison source said yesterday: "Not many prisoners are likely to spend their entire sentence in solitary but Lewis is one of them. Sources say jail staff have vowed to take industrial action if Lewis is ever let back into the main prison system. But a pal told how the killer dreams of leaving solitary, known by cons as the digger The source said: "Billy would love to get out of the digger and back into mainstream prison. Lewis was jailed for life in 1992 after stabbing two men to death in a street gang fight in Greenock, Renfrewshire. Lewis attacked a prison officer in 2000 after starting a riot at the recently opened private prison at Kilmarnock. And in 2003, he was responsible for one of the worst riots at Shotts jail in Lanarkshire. During the rampage, Lewis slashed and attempted to murder two officers and stabbed a third in the arm with a screwdriver. The attacks earned him a second life sentence. |
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