Murderer Thomas Nutt attacked in Leeds prison after killing Dawn Walker

The cold-hearted slayer of his new wife Dawn Walker was treated in hospital after he was assaulted by another prisoner at HMP Leeds.

Nutt shouted from the dock at Bradford Crown Court that he had only two years to live when he was convicted of murdering 5ft tall Dawn on their wedding night.

A Prison Service spokesman said: “We can confirm that a prisoner at HMP Leeds was treated in hospital for minor injuries following an assault by another prisoner. We are unable to comment further while police investigate."

Nutt, 46, packed Miss Walker’s body in a suitcase at the marital home in Shirley Grove, Lightcliffe, shortly after they married on October 27 last year.

On Friday, he was jailed for life with a minimum of 21 years behind bars.

He was led to the cells after Dawn’s family had endured a trial in which CCTV footage was repeatedly played of him wheeling her body off in the case before ‘chucking’ it over the fence, his words.

The remorseless murderer then bizarrely put up Halloween decorations at his home while her body lay hidden nearby.

Nutt had admitted Dawn Walker’s manslaughter but denied murdering her.

He said ‘f*** you’ after the Guilty to murder verdict was greeted with cheers and exclamations of relief from the public gallery.

The scrap metal dealer sat back in the dock at Bradford Crown Court with arms folded and his glasses resting on the top of his head during the sentencing hearing.

The court heard that he murdered Miss Walker, 52, with a choke hold, causing fatal compression to her neck.

She had a catalogue of injuries that included a black eye, deep bruising to her jaw and a fractured nasal bone and eye socket. There were fractures of the left tibia and fibula and four broken ribs probably caused after death when Nutt forced her body into the suitcase.

The jury was shown film of the couple’s wedding day. Miss Walker wore a bright red bridal gown for the ceremony at Halifax Register Office and the celebrations continued at Brighouse’s Prince Albert pub.

The last known sighting of her alive was by her maid of honour between 10.30 and 11pm on her wedding night.

Nutt left Miss Walker’s body in a cupboard and went to Skegness for two days suppos-edly on honeymoon before acting out the ‘ghastly charade’ of looking for her, saying she had disappeared.

Nutt sent Miss Walker’s daughter Kiera-Lee Guest a text purporting to be from her mother arranging to meet in Brighouse on the morning of October 31.

When she failed to turn up, Nutt cruelly searched shops in Brighouse with Miss Guest ‘looking for her,’ knowing he had killed her.

He told Miss Guest she must be ‘doing a Halloween trick’ by going missing on October 31.

Police at the scene

The police went to his home to take a missing person’s report just as he was wheeling the suitcase away. Nutt later went back to remove the wheel marks made by the case before putting up Halloween decorations at his home, including a blue and white police cordon in the gar-den.

Judge Jonathan Rose said Nutt murdered his bride on their wedding night. She was killed by persistent and violent acts at what should have been a time of very great happiness.

The family’s loss and pain was compounded by the horror of how he had abused her body, leaving it in a cupboard and then desecrating it by packing her in the suitcase and dumping her like litter.

He was a controlling and manipulating bully who dominated Miss Walker with violent and controlling behaviour. He had shown no remorse.