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19.10.2021 - 07:11 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Crazed torturer Colin Coats has been hit with more jail time after being caught with a mobile phone.
The 50-year-old was found to have the device after prison staff were tipped off, it's understood.
Coats - who kidnapped, maimed and murdered Lynda Spence - was given an extra 12 months on top of his life sentence
He was jailed for a minimum of 33 years for murdering tragic Lynda whose body has never been recovered.
Coats was found with the phone at HMP Glenochil.
The killer appeared at Alloa
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