A FOUL mouthed inmate has been jailed for threatening to kill a prison doctor and her family during a row about his medication.

Barry Veysey told the female GP he would throw her down a staircase, stab her and hunt her down after his release.

He left Dr Marjorie Peyton-Jones so frightened she was unable to complete her rounds at Exeter Prison when Veysey shouted threats for a second time from his cell at the segregation unit.

He has previously been jailed for threatening to shoot a judge who presided over an earlier trial and he claimed to have contacts with the IRA.

Veysey, 57, of Kingsway, Mark, denied making a threat to kill the doctor and putting her in fear of violence but was found guilty and jailed for four years at Exeter Crown Court. He was cleared of threatening to kill a prison officer.

Mr Recorder Timothy Grice told him:"These were extremely serious and really unpleasant and frightening threats.

“You intended them to be frightening and there is no doubt the doctor was very worried indeed about them.

"That was your intention and what you achieved.

“She was a public servant doing her best to tend to the medical needs of people in prison. She was doing her job as conscientiously as she could.

"You have previous convictions for this kind of conduct and making threats to people in positions of authority."

James Taghdissian, prosecuting, said Veysey has convictions for 107 previous offences and was jailed for three years in 2009 at Worcester Crown Court for threatening to shoot a judge.

He said Veysey was on remand at Exeter in September and November last year when he shouted threats at the doctor when she was on the landing outside his locked cell.

Dr Peyton-Jones told the court she was shocked and frightened because the threats were not just to her but to her family and Veysey said he intended to carry them out when he was released.

She said: "I knew he was in a cell and could not hurt me at the time but his comments about what he planned to do in the future made me fearful, and that is ongoing.

“It was very frightening. He threatened to hurt me in a very specific way."

Veysey said he was angry with the doctor because she had changed medication he was receiving for ulcers on his legs and he had been left in considerable pain.

He said he had made threats but they should not have been taken seriously because he was in a cell in the segregation unit and could not possibly carry them out.

Nick O' Brien, defending, said Veysey has been in custody on remand since April last year in relation to another offence which has still to be dealt with.

He said he had previously been homeless and living in a caravan in woodland in Somerset.