A prisoner told a court today he stabbed notorious child killer Roy Whiting in both eyes because he was a "dirty little nonce".
Double murderer Gary Vinter, 42, sneaked into Whiting's jail cell and attacked him with a sharpened plastic toilet brush handle.
The tip of his makeshift weapon broke and left a piece of plastic in his victim's eye socket, the court heard.
Whiting, serving life for the murder of eight-year-old Sarah Payne in East Sussex in July 2000, was then kicked and punched as he lay on the floor.
In a statement read out in court, Whiting said: "I was immediately punched and hit to the right eye and nose area and it made me stagger into the cell wall.
"I then felt a second punch or blow to the left side.
"Following the second blow I was aware of a severe pain in my eye and my vision was now blurred in my left eye.
"I slid down the walls to the floor and I raised my arms to defend myself but felt further kicks and punches."
He needed emergency treatment after the attack at Wakefield jail, West Yorkshire, but has made a full recovery.
His powerfully-built assailant appeared before the court via a videolink and said: "He was a dirty little nonce. That's why I did it."
Vinter, of Middlesbrough, murdered a workmate in 1996 and his estranged wife in 2008.
And the court heard he picked high-profile target Whiting in July last year because he wanted to change his jail conditions.
Vinter, speaking from Long Lartin Prison, Worcestershire, admitted wounding with intent and was given an indefinite sentence, with a notional minimum of five years.
Judge Peter Openshaw at Newcastle crown court said: "The defendant derived and continues to derive considerable satisfaction from having committed this offence."
After he was sentenced, Vinter said: "Thank you very much judge. It has been a pleasure."
Vinter will appeal against his full-life term before European human rights judges soon.
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