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'Da Vinci' rapist beats up sex offender 'The Thing' in prison row over tobacco smoke  

Jump to full article: Daily Record and Sunday Mail (uk), 2009-08-20
Author: Amy Devine

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A SEX beast nicknamed The Thing was left bloody and battered in a behind-bars row with the notorious Da Vinci rapist.

"Thing" Kevin Fyffe - a serial offender first jailed for rape in 1988 - ended up in hospital after the confrontation at Saughton jail in Edinburgh.

Attacker Robert Greens - serving 10 years for raping a Dutch student near the chapel which features in the book The Da Vinci Code - is now locked up 23 hours a day as punishment.

Prison sources said the row had broken out over Fyffe's pungent tobacco smoke.

Greens, 31, who had the cell next to Fyffe, 43, in the sex offenders' wing, punched him several times in the face before officers dragged him away. . . .

A source said last night: "Greens has a terrible temper and he flipped.

"He gave Fyffe a proper doing. It apparently all started out as a row over the cheap tobacco Fyffe smokes. He smokes pipe tobacco in his roll-ups and it stinks.

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