A VIOLENT inmate - once dubbed Scotland's most dangerous prisoner - was today sent to the State Hospital without limit of time for a catalogue of brutal attacks in jail.

A psychiatrist told the High Court in Glasgow that 26-year-old Ewan MacDonald poses a high risk of danger to the public.

Judge Lady Stacey ordered him to be detained at the State Hospital under a compulsion and restriction order.

He will only be freed when he is no longer deemed a risk.

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MacDonald left one guard so traumatised he quit his job after 15 years service.

Other prison officers and inmates were attacked by the burly 26-year-old thug. His makeshift weapons included a sharpened toilet brush handle and a radio aerial.

Psychiatric Dr Gordon Skilling from the State Hospital told prosecutor Lisa Gillespie that MacDonald has a dissocial personality disorder.

Dr Skilling said: “He has perpetrated a series of violent crimes involving carrying and using weapons, including improvised weapons, he will have little regard or remorse for his actions.”

The court was told MacDonald suffers from persecutional delusions and does not accept he has a mental illness.

Dr Skilling added: “He exhibits violent behaviour. There was a recent violent incident within the State Hospital and he would exhibit violence to the public at large.”

Ms Gillespie asked Dr Skilling: “How high is that risk,” and he replied: “I would say it is very high.”

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Burly MacDonald, who was handcuffed in the dock, was flanked by six security guards and a nurse from the State Hospital. Six police officers were also in court.

MacDonald, who faced 13 charges including attempted murder, was deemed unfit to stand trial and an examination of facts hearing was held.

The attacks were said to have occurred at Shotts, Grampian, Low Moss and Perth jails between July 2017 and March 2018.

Lady Stacey ruled that MacDonald carried out 11 of the charges.

He was acquitted of trying to kill one prison officer and seriously assaulting another at Perth jail.

Robbie Christie, a guard at HMP Grampian in August 2017, said MacDonald had only been there a few days when he launched an attack on prison officers.

Mr Christie said MacDonald, who was armed with a broken radio aerial and a sharpened toilet brush handle slashed and stabbed at him and two colleagues.

Mr Christie said: “Every time I was hit, it was puncturing my body. The incident was a big blur. The blood was in my eyes.”

“I have never been back to the prison since. I have been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. At the time, I had been an officer for 15 years.”

MacDonald had been charged with assaulting the three officers to their injury, permanent disfigurement and danger of life.

Amongst the other charges included two attempted murders of fellow inmates at high-security Shotts.

One of them, 34-year-old George McKenzie, said he needed a six-hour operation and “hundreds” of stitches after being attacked with a blade.

CCTV footage played in court showed him crawling out his cell injured. When asked about MacDonald, He said: “I thought he was my pal.”

MacDonald was jailed for attempted murder in 2016.