A VIOLENT inmate has had eight months added to his sentence after he attacked prison officers who caught him with home-made hooch.

Curtis Jewell was seen taking a bottle of the home-brewed liquor from another prisoner at Channings Wood Jail near Newton Abbot and lashed out when officers tried to restrain him.

He threw the bottle to another inmate who ran off with it and then punched warders when they tried to escort him to his cell.

He tried to bite one and left him with a gash on his forehead when he headbutted him. He went on to punch another officer in an unprovoked attack four days later.

Jewell, aged 28, is a notorious criminal from Bristol who was serving an eight year, eight month sentence for a gruesome gangland torture attack in which he forced a man to cut off his own toe.

He would have become eligible for parole in two years time but that will be delayed by a few months after he received a new sentence for these attacks, which happened in 2019 and have taken almost two years to come to court.

He is currently serving his sentence in Manchester Prison, where he has been diagnosed with mental health issues including paranoia.

Jewell, previously of Kenmore Road, Knowle West, Bristol, admitted causing actual bodily harm to one officer and three counts of assaulting emergency workers by battery.

He was jailed for eight months by Judge David Evans at Exeter Crown Court. The sentence will be added to his existing term but he will only serve half of it, meaning that it will delay his release by four months.

The judge told him: ‘You are genuinely remorseful and I bear in mind your mental ill health and that you have been in prison for most of your adult life.’

Mr Paul Grumbar, prosecuting, said three officers were hurt in the first incident on November 4, 2019, in which Jewell was seen receiving an object through a window at Channings Wood.

A female officer approached him but he threw the bottle of fermented liquid over her head to another inmate, who was then pursued and detained.

Officers then returned to Jewell to return him to his cell but he became violent, punching two officers in the face in quick succession in a boxing-style move which was so quick they did not have time to react.

He tried to bite another as he was being restrained and headbutted the same officer during the struggle. He was on the segregation wing four days later when he launched his next attack.

He lashed out at a warder who had opened the cell door to take him to breakfast and made contact with two punches to another officer who intervened and suffered injuries to his face and ligament damage to his thumb.

Miss Felicity Payne, defending, said Jewell reacted violently in the first incident because he felt he had been backed into a corner but could not explain the second.

She said his mental health was poor at the time and has deteriorated since to the extent that he was almost moved to a mental hospital earlier this year.

He is now on medication for paranoia and suspected schizophrenia which has stabilised him and enabled him to be re-integrated with other prisoners. He has completed course during his long sentence which he hopes will make him eligible for parole in 2023.

The eight year, eight month sentence was imposed at Bristol Crown Court in February 2015 when Jewell admitted false imprisonment and grievous bodily harm with intent.

He and co-defendant Blake Waldron kidnapped Richard Headford because they claimed he owed them money for drugs. They then subjected him to a torture ordeal which a judge said was ‘like a Quentin Tarantino movie’.

He was told to hand over money or drugs and then told he would have a toe or a finger cut off if he was unable to comply.

The two attackers then made a series of bungled attempts at the mutilation before the victim used his skills as a trainee butcher to sever his left little toe while cables and a sock was stuffed in his mouth to stifle his screams.

Waldron, then aged 24, pocketed the toe and the victim he could only have it back in return for £3,000.

Judge Martin Picton jailed Waldron for 11 years and three months and Jewell for eight years and eight months.

He said: ‘The scene that played out, as graphically portrayed on the prosecution papers, is reminiscent of the sort of thing that might be expected to feature in a Quentin Tarantino movie or the like.’