Teen killer who battered victim with Irn Bru bottle attacks gangster in prison
A teenage murderer who stabbed his victim 142 times, battered him with a bottle of Irn Bru and left a knife lodged in his eye socket has admitted attacking a notorious gangland killer in prison.
Peter Allen, who was caged in 2009 for the slaying of dad-of-five Raymond Black, set upon Paul Lyons at Perth Prison on February 21, 2021. Crime clan figure Lyons had been jailed in 2010 for the road rage killing of van driver Mark Fleeman, 32. Allen was due to go on trial this week charged with assaulting Lyons. Prosecutors claimed he struggled with him, kicked him and struck "him on his face with an unknown sharp implement to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement".
He was jailed in 2009 (NEWSLINE SCOTLAND PRESS AGENCY)
He pleaded guilty to assaulting Paul Lyons in prison (NEWSLINE SCOTLAND PRESS AGENCY)But Allen, 34, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of punching Lyons, 42, on Thursday. He was handed a five-month jail term for the offence, to run alongside the life sentence he is already serving, reports Daily Record. Allen was given a 15-year minimum term for the murder of Raymond Black, and is due to be released in May 2024.
He was just a teenager when he killed Mr Black at the victim's home in Carluke, Lanarkshire, in January 2008. Mr Black's two-year-old daughter was asleep in another room at the time of the murder. Lord Brodie said Allen had inflicted an "extraordinary level of violence" in the attack. Allen had downed a cocktail of drink and drugs before the killing of Mr Black, which was so frenzied detectives described the crime scene as one of the worst they had encountered. Allen, also of Carluke, had denied murder, at first claiming Mr Black had attacked him. But he later claimed the 48-year-old had made sexual advances towards him.
The six day trial heard how Mr Black allowed Allen into his home and the two had been drinking together, while Allen had also taken up to 30 Librium tablets and smoked heroin. Allen battered Mr Black with an Irn Bru bottle and a lamp then repeatedly cut and stabbed him with a large kitchen knife. Medics discovered his throat had been cut through to the spine and a knife was left embedded just below his left eye socket.
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Allenlanded back in the dock in 2022 after being caught with a makeshift weapon in prison. The weapon was a four-and-a-half inch long piece of wood with 11 razor blades embedded in the end of it. It was so big that it bulged in his pocket and was spotted by guards when he was acting suspiciously ahead of exercise at HMP Glenochil. He claimed he had the weapon as he was paranoid "everyone was out to get" him.
Lyons hit speeds of 100mph as he chased down his victim Mark Fleeman while driving on the M74 after a night out. He rammed the father-of-two's van, which left the road and overturned, resulting in Mr Fleeman dying at the scene Mr Fleeman's passenger, 17-year-old Lee Allsup, also suffered life-changing brain and leg injuries. Lyons, who is the son of crime clan grandad David Lyons, was let out of jail in January this year to attend his father's funeral.
He was one of a number of crime figures who paid their respects to 63-year-old and gave a speech as part of the eulogy before placing a rose in his dad's coffin. The thug has also been caught with mobile phones three times whilst serving his sentence, claiming he had the devices because he missed his family.
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