Tobin jail slasher attacked a second sex beast
Double rapist used home-made knife
THE double rapist who slashed serial killer Peter Tobin in prison also attacked another notorious sex offender, it can now be revealed.
Sean Moynihan savagely lashed out at William Bermingham with a homemade weapon at Glenochil prison, Clackmannanshire, because of a threat to assault a woman employee at the jail.
Bermingham needed steristrips applied to close wounds to his neck and head after the attack. Moynihan had to go to hospital to have the weapon removed from his hand where it was embedded because of the force of the blows.
Moynihan, 34, was jailed for 40 months for the attack and was told the sentence would begin at the end of a six-year minimum prison term imposed on him in 2015 as part of an order for lifelong restriction (OLR) after his second conviction for rape.
At the time of the attack in January last year, the Record told how Moynihan set upon Bermingham in the sex offenders’ wing where they’re both caged.
Insiders believe he made a knife from a razor blade in the days leading up to the assault.
The judge who jailed Moynihan for the latest attack, Lord Uist, told him: “Assaults of this nature in prison cannot be tolerated as it is essential prison discipline is maintained.”
Lord Uist told Moynihan at the High Court in Edinburgh that it was clear it was “a deliberate and planned attack” in which he used considerable force.
Moynihan earlier pled guilty to assaulting Bermingham to the danger of his life by striking him on the head and body with “a bladed instrument” on January 19 last year.
A reporting ban was enforced on this case until the end of Moynihan’s trial at the High Court in Livingston on Monday.
He was jailed for nine years for trying to rape a 15-year-old girl in Paisley in 2008 after dragging her into bushes at a cycle path.
A probe into the offence was reopened in 2016 after a DNA link was established between Moynihan and the girl’s jeans.
Moynihan was jailed for four years for rape in 2009 after a 16-year-old girl mistook his car for a taxi after a night out in Paisley.
After his release, he raped another woman, aged 18, at the same cycle track in the earlier rape bid and was given an OLR.
While in prison, he was jailed for 32 months for attacking serial killer Tobin at Edinburgh’s Saughton jail.
Advocate depute Iain McSporran QC said of Moynihan’s latest victim: “It would be fair to describe the complainer, William Bermingham, as a notorious sex offender.”
Bermingham was jailed for five years in 2006 after taking a woman officer hostage at Polmont Young Offenders Institution, where he was serving five years for the attempted rape of a girl, 17, at knifepoint.
Assaults of this nature cannot be tolerated.. it is essential discipline is maintained LORD UIST