The murderer of a Dundee dad has been attacked in prison, the Tele can reveal.
Matthew Pope was headbutted by another inmate in Perth Prison — where he is serving a life sentence for the murder of Michael Given at a Lochee multi.
The assault on Pope is said to have happened on June 19.
A source close to the prison claimed that Pope needed stitches to a head wound following the incident.
The Scottish Prison Service said it could not comment on individual cases.
However, Police Scotland confirmed it had received a report about an incident at the prison on June 19 and a report was sent to the procurator fiscal.
Pope, who was 22 at the time, murdered Mr Given, 29, at a flat in Elders Court in a vicious attack in the early hours of July 21 2013.
He was found guilty of murder at the High Court in Aberdeen in February 2014. He was then sentenced to life imprisonment at the High Court in Edinburgh — with a minimum term of 17½ years.
Pope entered the home of Mr Given and murdered him by striking him repeatedly on the head with a piece of wood which had nails protruding from it, repeatedly punching and kicking him and stamping on his body.
He hit Mr Given with the wooden post so hard that it split in two, and repeatedly kicked and punched him during the attack.
Evidence showed Pope had repeatedly stamped on Mr Given so hard he left a bruised imprint of his Fred Perry trainer sole on his shoulder and at one point knelt down into a pool of his victim’s blood to continually punch him on the head and body.
During sentencing, Judge Lord Armstrong described it as an “obscenely violent attack”.
He added: “There is no sentence that I can impose that will be sufficient.”
Speaking after the sentencing Andy Shanks, procurator fiscal for the High Court for the north of Scotland, said: “Matthew Pope confronted his victim with the sole purpose of doing him harm and a short time afterwards Michael Given lay dead.
“Let this be a warning to all that whatever the circumstances, the use of violence is totally unacceptable.
“Taking the life of another is the gravest of crimes and brings with it the most serious consequences.”
Pope was also convicted of an assault to injury on another man.