Machine gun killer caused rammy behind bars after he was banned from playing goalie in prison team
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A MURDERER kicked off behind bars after he was banned from playing goalkeeper in a prison team.
Samuel Petto, 45, claimed he attacked guard Tara Jackson after being red-carded from his role in the closed doors kick-about.
He lunged towards Miss Jackson who had gone to his cell with nurses amid fears he had taken illicit substances.
Petto appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court and admitted targeting her at maximum security HMP Shotts, Lanarkshire.
Fellow killers Mohamud Mohamud, 41, and Paul Watson, 39, also appeared to admit assaulting staff at the prison between May and October last year.
Depute fiscal Jack Muir told the court Petto had become volatile in his cell.
He said: "Prison officers attended at the cell of the accused along with NHS staff to check on the accused who was believed to be under the influence.
"The complainer Jackson and another officer entered the cell and he became aggressive towards them and lunged towards the complainer and grabbed her by the belt and shirt.
"The accused thereafter began to punch the prison officer on her face and head area and then pulled her to the ground which caused other staff to enter which allowed the complainer to leave the cell.
"She suffered bruising on her left eye and the back of her head, pain and limpness to the right knee, cuts to her head and neck area and swelling to her right hand and wrist."
Petto, who represented himself in court, claimed he had become angry after being told he was not allowed to play football.
He said: "I'd organised the football and they were getting people for football but said I wasn't going. So I started shouting trying to get my door open so I could go and play because I'm the goalie.
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"They came back with nurses saying I was under the influence but I wasn't taking drugs. I just wanted to get to the football and then they all grabbed me and were trying to pull me by the head and that was when the other screws came in and this melee happened.
"I don't know why I wasn't allowed to go to football."
Watson lashed out at Miss Jackson in a separate incident while Mohamud assaulted guard Michael Corrigan during a trip to University Hospital Wishaw.
Lorna Clark, defending Mohamud and Watson, said they had struggled with addiction behind bars and had no recollection of the incidents.
Sheriff Louise Gallacher handed Petto a year while Mohamud and Watson were given six months.
All were told the sentences would run alongside their current terms for murder.
Petto murdered a woman in an explosion which he caused to cover up the killing of a flatmate in March 2003 and was jailed for a minimum of 18 years.
Machine gun killer Mohamud, who previously boasted about having two X-Boxes in his cell, was jailed for 25 years after killing a drug gang rival in Edinburgh in 2013.
Watson was jailed for 20 years after being convicted of murdering a man with a pitchfork and knife in 2014.
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