A female prisoner awaiting trial for a Cape Breton murder delivered more than 33 punches, kicks and knees to the head of another inmate known as “Crime Stoppers,” because women doing time at Halifax’s Burnside Jail believed she was a police informant.

The fight began with a handshake.

Pamela Hubley, who is left handed, had reached out to shake Carolyn Ann Dermody’s hand with her right in the jail’s “airing yard.” This was enough for the judge to consider the first few punches, thrown by Dermody in expectation of blows from Hubley’s dominant left, were in self-defence.

The fight was caught on surveillance cameras. After those first few shots, Dermody swung 22 times at Hubley, all within seconds of throwing the first punch. The fight, wrote Dartmouth provincial court judge Timothy Daley,

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