Sunday, November 19, 2006

Man breaks into prison to deliver drugs

It boasts the unenviable record of being the prison with the highest number of escaped convicts.

So staff at HMP Kirkham were more than a little surprised when they spotted a man breaking into the jail.

The intruder scaled an 8ft wire fence to get into the prison and was cornered as he tried to clamber over the same fence to get back out.

Guards later discovered the man had hidden a stash of drinks, drugs and electronic goods in a prison wheelie bin for an inmate - thought to be his brother - to sell on to the other lags.

The haul included heroin, cannabis, steroid tablets, three litres of vodka, three bottles of Southern Comfort and Bacardi, 80 cigarettes, 18 DVDs, two mobile phones, top-up cards and phone-chargers.

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