A HAIRDRESSER who deliberately infected men with HIV has been given a further eight-year jail sentence for similar crimes in Scotland.

Daryll Rowe, from Edinburgh, admitted having sex with four men knowing he was HIV positive. One contracted the virus.

Last month, at Hove Crown Court, Rowe was jailed for life for trying to infect ten men in the Brighton area. Five of them contracted HIV.

After being diagnosed with the virus in 2015, the 27-year-old began to have sex with men in a deliberate effort to infect them.

He would promise lovers they would have safe sex, but then either remove his condom or used condoms with which he had tampered, removing the tips.

Last week at the High Court in Edinburgh, Rowe pleaded guilty to four counts of culpable and reckless conduct and was placed on the sex offenders’ register for life.

He will serve the eight years concurrently with the life sentence given to him in Hove in April.

Lady Scott said Daryll Rowe had acted with “a total disregard of the consequences”.

She said it was with “utter callousness” and said for the victim who became HIV positive it had been “traumatic” with a “profound effect on his life”.

Rowe met men using online dating apps and entered into sexual relationships without disclosing his illness.

Between October 2015 and December 2016 he continued to commit similar offences in Edinburgh, Sussex and north east England.

During last month’s case in Brighton, the court heard he had sent mocking text messages after sex saying he was “riddled”.

Rowe, formerly of Musselburgh, met men on gay dating app Grindr.

He slept with eight men in Brighton between October 2015 and February 2016 before fleeing to Northumberland where he targeted a further two men.

He was the subject of a citywide manhunt after Sussex Police and Public Health Brighton issued a health warning, although the authorities came under fire for not releasing Rowe’s name, which The Argus then published.

Rowe sent one victim a text reading: “Maybe you have the fever coz.... I have HIV LOL.”

Rowe’s conviction in Hove last November was the first time anyone has been convicted in the UK of deliberately infecting a partner with HIV. Sentencing last month, Judge Christine Henson QC said he waged a “determined, hateful campaign of sly violence”.