chief and said he deserved "a proper whipping''.

Prisoner Junius Carmen Caines, whose brother James was shot dead last July, was jailed for two-and-a-half years this week after attacking the Deputy Commissioner of Prisons Marvin Trott.

He also made a "shooting sign'' at Westgate doctor Lorna Hall and told her: "Do you know what happened to my brother? He got shot just like I will do to you.'' Caines, 29, pleaded guilty to threatening behaviour, assault and unlawful damage when he launched into the attack at 11.40 a.m. on September 16 last year.

Caines, who was already serving a nine-month prison term for unlawfully wounding a woman, was flanked by four security guards in court.

And the Chief Justice told him: "Look at you. Four prison officers have to escort you up here. That's not right. People are afraid of you.'' The court heard that Caines was taken to the prison offices after threatening and shouting obscenities at Dr. Hall.

But he jumped out of a chair, punched Mr. Trott in the face and broke his glasses.

Crown counsel Lesley Basden said: "He punched him about the face, head and body and kicked him in the groin area.

"He was eventually pulled off Mr. Trott by prison staff.'' She said the Deputy Commissioner was "unsteady on his feet'' and had to be helped to a chair, later receiving hospital treatment for a cut below his right eye, swellings and bruises on his face and body.

Caines told Mr. Justice Ward: "I didn't do all of that. I was the one that got beaten in that situation.'' And the Chief Justice said: "Well you should have got beaten. If you are going to attack the Deputy Commissioner of Prisons, you deserve to be beaten.

"If you had been taken out and given a proper whipping, you would never do that again. That's what you lack Mr. Caines -- discipline.

"You can't beat up people who disagree with you. People disagree with me every day. Do you think I have ever beaten up anybody? You have to control your anger.

"What if he had put you on a starvation diet, put you on bread and water for seven days? You must think before you act.'' Caines added: "I apologise, sir. I had a bad toothache at the time and the doctor told me she couldn't treat me right there and then.'' Mr. Justice Ward added: "So you told her that you would fix her the same way that your brother was fixed? "The doctor in Westgate would be responsible for about 200 prisoners. Do you think I can go out on the street and just because they see me the bus will stop and say: `Where are you going Chief Justice'? "Life doesn't work like that.'' Caines, convicted of a string of assaults stretching back to 1985, was jailed for six months for threatening behaviour, two-and-a-half years for the assault and one year for damaging Mr. Trott's glasses.

Mr. Ward ruled the sentences should run concurrently.