THE ‘MAN with the lipstick tattoo’ has been jailed for more than three-and-half years for dousing two prisoners in boiling water at HMP Bullingdon.

‘Prison napalm’ thrower Shaun Page, 21, was identified from the distinctive inking on his neck. He later told his first victim, jailed for terror offences, that he had read about him in The Sun.

The first victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons and who was only protected from more serious facial burns by the book he was reading, was locked in his cell when Page’s accomplice Clayton Sawyer, 21, shut the door after the brutal attack with boiling sugar water.

Page hid the kettle into a bin then slipped his calling card – a list of telephone numbers with his name at the top – beneath his victim’s cell door.

The victim described Page as 'the man with the lipstick tattoo'. 

A second victim was doused the following day, July 29, when boiling water and baby oil was thrown in his face as he walked up the stairs on ‘C’ wing.

The victim, who had to be taken to a burns unit and whose eyesight remains blurry, managed to chase after his assailant and snapped a broom handle to use as a makeshift weapon.

Page, who is currently incarcerated at a Kent jail serving a five year sentence for GBH, failed to attend his trial at Oxford Crown Court this week but was found guilty in his absence of two counts of causing actual bodily harm.

He was due back before Recorder Thomas Moran on Thursday for sentence. However, a note from HMP Swaleside explained that Page would not attend, stating simply: “Don’t want to go.”

On Thursday, prosecutor Alice Aubrey-Fletcher said Page also had to be sentenced for two charges of having homemade knives in HMP Bullingdon in 2020 and 2021. The first was found in his waistband. When the second was found, during a search of his cell, Page said he made it 'because I wanted to'. 

The court was told Page had 104 offences on his record. Julian Lynch, mitigating, said his absent client was at risk of being institutionalised, having started committing crime from an early age.

Co-defendant Clayton Sawyer, appearing in court via video link from HMP Bullingdon, admitted involvement in the first of the two boiling water attacks. The Crown accepted he was the ‘lookout’.

Mitigating for Sawyer, Kellie Enever said her client had been brought up by grandparents as his parents ‘flitted in and out of prison’.

He faced ‘severe bullying’ at school but ended up getting excluded himself. His older brother had ‘tried his best’ to keep him out of prison.

He had a talent for IT and ‘loved’ computers, the court heard.

Jailing Page for three years and nine months, Recorder Moran said of the first attack: “The offence was obviously planned, it was pre-meditated. You lay in wait for some time waiting for the appropriate time when the coast was sufficiently clear.”

He gave Sawyer nine months’ imprisonment.

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This story was written by Tom Seaward. He joined the team in 2021 as Oxfordshire's court and crime reporter.  

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