142 STAB WOUNDS KILLER SCARS GANGSTER IN JAIL BRAWL

Accused pleads guilty to punching thug

- RORY CASSIDY

A MURDERER who stabbed his victim 142 times and left a knife lodged in his eye socket has admitted attacking gangland killer Paul Lyons in a jail brawl.

Peter Allan, who was caged in 2009 for the slaying of dadof-five Raymond Black, set upon Lyons at Perth Prison.

Crime clan figure Lyons was jailed in 2010 for the road rage killing of van driver Mark Fleeman, 32.

Allan was accused of slashing Lyons on February 21, 2021. He was due to go on trial this week charged with assault.

Prosecutors claimed he struggled with him, kicked him and struck "him on his face with an unknown sharp implement to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement".

But Allan, 34, pled guilty to a reduced charge of punching Lyons, 42, on Thursday.

He was handed a five-month jail term, to run alongside the life sentence he is serving.