A killer has appeared in court again, this time for vandalism in the prison.

Inmate Donovan Bradley Kitching has been sentenced to four weeks’ custody for damaging a cell intercom.

He admitted an offence of property damage but is not due to be released from prison for another year.

High Bailiff Jayne Hughes ordered that the four-week sentence run concurrently so it will not result in the 37-year-old’s current jail term being extended.

Kitching, from St John’s in the Isle of Man, was jailed for 10 years in October 2014 after he admitted knocking down a woman who was out walking with her family on the Tholt-y-Will road.

At the time of the accident, he was under licence, having been released from jail three weeks earlier after serving a six-year sentence for aggravated burglary.

A report into him after his convicition said committed a total of 33 offences in custody including assaulting another prisoner, fermenting alcohol and threatening a prison officer.

His offending continued.

In 2018 he pleaded guilty to punching two different prisoner officers on two separate occasions and his sentence was extended.

This week prosecuting advocate Hazel Carroon told the court that Kitching was in a cell in the segregation unit of the prison on March 8.

He asked for an e-cigarette which was outside the cell but the prison officer told him he would have to establish whether it belonged to him.

At 8.55pm an emergency cell light began flashing and the alarm started sounding.

It was later discovered that the intercom plate in Kitching’s cell had been damaged.

During a phone call the next day Kitching was alleged to have said: ’Kicked off last night. Couldn’t get an e-cig. I might’ve smashed something on the wall.’

When interviewed about the incident Kitching said that he had been ’on the blag’ when he asked for the e-cig as it didn’t belong to him.

However he said that was not the reason for him damaging the intercom.

Kitching said that he thought he had been put in segregation unfairly in relation to an assault which he had not committed.

He then said that ’hypothetically speaking’ you would have to use a chair to damage the intercom.

When quizzed about his phone call he replied: ’I said that? What an idiot.’

Kitching, who appeared in court via video link from the prison, opted to represent himself in court after declining the use of an advocate.

He reiterated that he had not damaged the intercom because of the e-cigarette and said he didn’t agree with what the prosecution said.

Kitching claimed that the incident had been the culmination of several issues.

He said that he was not allowed to exercise, shower or go out of his cell, and was in segregation because of somebody else’s actions.

’This is the first criminal damage I’ve committed,’ said Kitching.

’Things get damaged every day. I seem to be the only person who’s had my case referred to the police. Things are normally dealt with in-house.’

He went on to claim that he had done seven years in prison and spent two years in segregation, most unfairly.

High Bailiff Mrs Hughes told Kitching that she had dealt with lots of similar matters relating to incidents at the prison.

She said: ’I will deal with this as a one-off borne out of frustration.’

No order for prosecution costs was made.