Fury over barbecue fun-day for dangerous prisoners

By Zoë Keown

SOME of Scotland’s foulest sex offenders and murders will be feasting on burgers and ice-cream at a special summer barbecue later this month.

The lavish menu for the convicts is to include Texas burgers, vegetarian burgers, chicken burgers, chips, salad, corn on the cob, cans of juice and choc ices.

HMP Peterhead – which houses ‘Limbs in the Loch’ killer William Beggs and serial sex offender Robert Foye – is to put on the slap-up day for lags on July 23.

The day will also include sports, games and performances by the prison band.

MacAskill blasted over home-for-Christmas lags

By Cara Sulieman

ONE OF Scotland’s prisons is shutting down for Christmas as record numbers of inmates go home for the festive holiday.

Noranside – one of Scotland’s two open prisons – will empty as almost 200 prisoners qualify for the holiday week.

And those who aren’t given the time away from jail will be shipped 30 miles down to Castle Huntly on the outskirts of Dundee.

Whilst the Scottish Prison Service said that it was a cost-cutting measure, it has attracted criticism for the prison bosses and Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill.

Questions have been raised about the safety of the Scottish public if the prisoners – many serving life sentences – are let out.