article_snippet.sent: William Beggs is known as Infamous Limbs in Loch killer William Beggs for raping, murdering and dismembering Barry Wallace, 18, in 1999 .
article_snippet.sent: William Beggs, 54, known as the Limbs in the Loch murderer, was described by police at the time of fellow prisoner conviction in 2001 as a 'serial killer in the making'.
article_snippet.sent: William Beggs is serving a life sentence in Saughton Prison, Edinburgh, for raping, murdering and dismembering Barry Wallace, 18, in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, in 1999.
article_snippet.sent: William Beggs screamed in pain as boiling water was thrown over William Beggs face and hands in an apparent revenge attack in a Scottish prison, the Scottish Daily Record reported yesterday.
article_snippet.sent: The alleged attacker was taking revenge after William Beggs attacked The alleged attacker soon after The alleged attacker arrived at Shotts Prison.
article_snippet.sent: It is understood William Beggs was treated for burns in Shotts Prison's infirmary but did not need to attend hospital.
article_snippet.sent: In 2001 a jury found William Beggs took The teenager to Supermarket worker Mr Wallace flat and subjected Supermarket worker Mr Wallace to a serious sexual assault.
article_snippet.sent: William Beggs is serving a life sentence for murdering and dismembering
article_snippet.sent: William Beggs then murdered William Beggs and cut up William Beggs body.
article_snippet.sent: Shortly after the crime, Beggs, originally from Northern Ireland, fled to the Netherlands.
article_snippet.sent: After lengthy extradition proceedings, William Beggs was ordered in January 2001 to be returned to Scotland to face trial.
article_snippet.sent: After the High Court jury delivered their majority verdict and found William Beggs guilty their majority verdict was revealed William Beggs was once cleared of a similar murder by appeal court judges on a technicality.
article_snippet.sent: William Beggs was jailed in 1987 at Teeside Crown Court for murdering a barman William Beggs met in a gay nightclub by slashing William Beggs throat, only to have the conviction overturned by the Court of Appeal, the BBC reported at the time.
article_snippet.sent: Teeside Crown Court also learned that at William Beggs William Beggs was convicted of two charges of wounding and sentenced to four months for each.
article_snippet.sent: William Beggs was also jailed for six years in 1991 for slashing the leg of a man who escaped by jumping through a glass window.
article_snippet.sent: William Beggs has repeatedly tried and failed to have William Beggs conviction overturned at Teeside Crown Court.
highlights_snippet.sent: Infamous Limbs in Loch killer William Beggs was attacked in prison .
  