A violent prison inmate sprayed a mysterious substance on a guard and threatened to gouge out another's eye in a savage attack.

Dangerous Paul Squire, imprisoned at HMP Dartmoor in Devon, forced officer Mark Collings to take six weeks off work after he was attacked by the 30-year-old in a frenzied attack.

Squire dug his thumb into Collings' eye and repeatedly shouted: "I am going to gouge your f****** eyes out" during the assault in June 2018.

Ali Rafati said his colleague James Tregale suspected Squire of smoking Spice in his cell at HMP Dartmoor and confronted the prisoner, Plymouth Crown Court heard.

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Squire then sprayed a mysterious substance – which has never been identified – on Mr Treagle's eye, Plymouth Live reports.

He called for help and Mr Collings tried to restrain the prisoner.

Mr Rafati said the inmate then manage to push his thumb into Mr Collins' left eye as his glasses were knocked off in the struggle.

In a statement read to the court, Mr Collings said: "I have been in the service for 28 years and this is the most serious assault I have suffered.

"I had to endure four hours of examination to my eye."

He was treated in hospital and suffered a cut under his right eye, along with burst blood vessels in his left eye.

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Chronic drug user Squire was jailed for nine years in 2017 for an offence not revealed at the hearing, and will not be considered for release until 2023.

Jailing the con for a further two years and a month, Judge Paul Darlow said: “This was an incident of very specifically targeted violence towards the eye of a prison officer.

“I must bear in mind the deterrent effect of a sentence so that others are deterred from attacking prison officers, who do a difficult job in difficult circumstances.”

The 30-year-old’s sentence will not run concurrently with his current sentence, and Squire will be expected to serve the time at the end of his jail term.

He pleaded guilty to assault resulting in actual bodily harm on June 8, 2018.

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