37-year-old remanded in custody
An inmate at Jurby has changed his plea and admitted he assaulted two prison officers in a row over clean clothing.
Thirty-seven-year-old Alistair John Cowin appeared before magistrates at Douglas courthouse.
At an earlier hearing he'd denied two charges of assaulting a peace officer but changed his pleas to guilty telling the court "I'm always guilty".
Prosecution advocate Roger Kane told the hearing Cowin was just minutes from release at 8am on 9 June when the incident happened in the prison's reception area.
The court heard Cowin grabbed one guard by the throat, before punching another in the face, after he couldn't find clean clothes for his release.
Appearing, via a live video link, Cowin told the bench the two guards were secretly undercover police officers who were part of a conspiracy to keep him in prison.
Magistrates asked for him to be taken back to his cell after he repeatedly interrupted proceedings.
He was remanded in custody until his next court appearance on 24 June.
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