A murderer has received a further four-month jail sentence after smashing up his cell in a rage.
Adam Gallagher is serving a life sentence for stabbing a Czech fruit picker in Arbroath in 2006.
He robbed 21-year-old Marek Smrz seconds before stabbing him through the heart with a steak knife.
Perth Sheriff Court heard yesterday that Gallagher will not be released until 2020 at the earliest for the crime.
The 28-year-old received a further four-month prison sentence after admitting causing £790 of damage in his Perth prison cell.
Gallagher forcibly removed a sink and a chair from a wall, as well damaging the cell lighting, cell door and the cell walls, on December 18 last year.
Sheriff Fiona Tait was told that Gallagher was set to be transferred from Perth prison to Barlinnie when he was placed in segregation cells.
He had become involved in an incident with a prison officer and was placed in isolation as a result. He then flew into a rage and began ripping apart his cell.
Gallagher was jailed for life in 2006 for murdering Czech berry picker Marek Smrz, who had arrived in Scotland just weeks earlier.
Mr Smrz was working as a fruit picker after being advised he could find a job in the Angus area.
Gallagher stabbed Mr Smrz in Arbroath’s Marketgate area after he and a former girlfriend found the Czech man collapsed on the ground near a pub and smelling of alcohol.
His ex-girlfriend stole Mr Smrz’s wallet before witnessing a scuffle between the two men.
Gallagher then ran off with her, leaving Mr Smrz bleeding to death in the street.
Former waiter Mr Smrz, who was killed less than three months after leaving his home village in the Czech Republic to come to Scotland, died almost instantly in the attack.
He had been working on East Seaton Farm, near Arbroath
Gallagher was found guilty of murder by a majority after a six-day trial.
The trial was told there was no way Mr Smrz would have survived the fatal blow “even if it had happened in a hospital car park”.