Convict attacked prison guards after being refused shower
A hygiene-conscious convict who battered two prison officers after being told he could not have a shower will serve an extra stretch behind bars.
Nathan Ingram, aged 21, was serving a sentence at a young offender institute when he exploded into violence when refused a shower last December.
“Do you want some time off for Christmas?” he asked a male officer, before fracturing his eye socket with a savage punch.
He then turned on a female officer at YOI Swinfen Hall, in Lichfield, punching her so that she fell back and cut her face.
Ingram was jailed for two years and three months at Stafford Crown Court in July for two counts of assault occasioning ABH.
The term was ordered to be served on top of the nine years and four months he was already facing for aggravated burglary, firearm possession and prison weapons offences.
Confirming the sentence at the Court of Appeal in London, Mr Justice William Davis said that the punishment was “just and proportionate”.
Lawyers working for Ingram had argued
that his sentence was too long for a “momentary” loss of temper during the December 2017 incident.
But the judge said Ingram was “plainly angry” at being told a lockdown would prevent him using the shower that night.
He punched his fist into his palm several times, while suggesting the guard would be so badly hurt he would be off work and at home for Christmas.
The attack left the male officer with nerve damage, which continues to cause numbness in his face.
The appeal was rejected and the sentence upheld.
