A convicted murderer was handed a further two years behind bars after he was found guilty of wounding a prison guard at HMP Liverpool .
Wesley Dennis Rowlands, 32, beat a dad-of-three David Lavender to death on a pub crawl after he objected to him urinating on a landlady’s dog.
Mr Lavender, 37, protested to Rowlands, who turned on his pal and brutally attacked him in a park in Chester on May 20, 2012.
Rowlands – who was jailed for life with a minimum of 15 years in jail – was an inmate at Walton prison on January 25 this year.
Rowlands faced a trial at Liverpool Crown Court after denying that he stabbed a 46-year-old officer in the chest with a home-made knife.
Prosecutors said the unprovoked assault happened at around 3.45pm during meal time in the serving area on the jail’s F wing.
The officer was taken to hospital with a 2mm puncture wound to the left side of his chest, plus scratches to his left shoulder and the side of his face.
He was signed off work as a result of his injuries and an investigation was launched by Merseyside Police and Ministry of Justice officials.
Rowlands, previously of Westminster Road, Ellesmere Port and Chevron Close, Blacon, Chester, denied wounding with intent.
He accepted attacking the guard, but said he did not have or use a knife during the incident.
A jury took just 22 minutes to find him not guilty of wounding with intent, but guilty of the lesser offence of wounding.
Judge Andrew Menary, QC, sentenced Rowlands to two years in prison, to be served consecutively to his existing sentence.
The violent thug was jailed for the attack on Mr Lavender – nicknamed Lavo – of Sycamore Drive, Lache, Chester, in 2013.
Chester Crown Court heard how they were drinking at a pub when they were ordered to leave for abusing the dog.
Rowlands admitted subjecting him to a prolonged assault and leaving him for dead at Edgar’s Field Park in Handbridge, Chester.
He was found guilty of murder after claiming that he had not intended to kill his friend or cause him serious injury.
Judge Elgan Edwards said: “Once you started you could not stop.
“You treated this victim in a thoroughly brutal way. Stamping on a man’s head, when he could not defend himself, was quite appalling.”
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