A prisoner jailed for a knifepoint robbery spree squirted urine in the face of a prison officer.
Rowan Hague used a shampoo bottle to squirt a female officer in the face at HMP Deerbolt, near Barnard Castle, on January 31.
Durham Crown Court heard some went in her mouth and over her hair, drenching her uniform.
Prosecutor Cole Cockburn said it happened from a relatively short distance as the officer and colleagues were asking inmates to return to their cells.
Hague tried to run away but was taken to the floor and restrained, the court was told, and as he was led away he lifted his head and smiled in the direction of other inmates.
He made no comment when interviewed.
Mr Cockburn said the victim of the attack described it as, "not nice".
The officer, with five years’ experience, said she considers herself to be “fair”, someone who helps inmates with problems, and she believed there was no reason for the attack.
She said she had warned the defendant the previous night after he was found to be “under the influence” that he would lose some of his privileges. But she added that she felt the incident was, “completely unprovoked”.
Hague, 24, who appeared via video link from HMP Fosse Way in Leicestershire, where he is now detained, was said to have 22 convictions for 50 offences, 30 of them for dishonesty.
But the court heard he was jailed for seven-and-a-half-years at Newcastle Crown Court in September last year for a series of random knifepoint robberies during a day-long spree in Blyth, Northumberland, in February 2024.
Glenn Reardon, representing the defendant, said a psychiatric report prepared for the court last September indicates the defendant has an anti-social personality disorder and ADHD.
Jailing him for 16 months, Judge Nathan Adams told the defendant: “You engaged in an absolutely appalling, disgusting attack with a bottle filled with urine.
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“You knew full well what the consequences would be when you acted in the way you did.
“It risked wider disorder in the prison.
“I’m satisfied this was a deliberate act on your behalf, knowing full well what you were doing.”
His jail term will be served consecutively to his extended sentence and the judge told Hague it would have the effect of pushing back when he can apply for parole by about a year.
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