Prisoner who tried to sneak phone into jail got it stuck in his bottom

A prisoner who tried to sneak a mobile phone into jail was left in discomfort after it got stuck up his backside. Roderick Bambury was caught trying to take the phone into maximum security Perth Prison. He set off a metal detecting seat when he sat down, but then needed emergency surgery because he could not get the phone back out of his body. Bambury paid tribute to the medical staff who helped him as was sent back to prison for four and a half months at Perth Sheriff Court on Thursday.

The 36-year-old, of Lansdowne Court, Dundee, admitted having a personal communications device in Perth Prison on 1 June last year. Fiscal depute Charmaine Gilmartin said: "As part of the procedure for entering the prison he was required to sit on a metal chair. He said something would be detected when he sat on it because he has a metal plate fitted. Prison officers checked his medical records and found that wasn't true. When he sat on the chair something was detected. Officers inquired what he could be concealing and he said he had a mobile telephone concealed within his back passage.



"Things got worse from there for him, because he was unable to have the telephone removed by himself and was in considerable discomfort. He had to go to hospital to have surgery to remove the phone." Solicitor Larry Flynn, defending, said: "His position was that he was confronted by a group of individuals who were conscious he was going back to prison. They put it upon him that this phone would be inserted in him and if he didn't do that then he would be met with violence. He said to staff he had a metal plate which would set the chair off but clearly that was a lie. He was in a degree of discomfort.

"He is very obliged for the way he was treated at hospital. He wishes to extend his thanks to those individuals at Perth Royal Infirmary for the way they deal with this. He has been a pain in the neck to the prison and authorities. He is resigned to receiving a custodial sentence." Sheriff Alastair Brown told Bambury: "It sounds as though it was really quite unpleasant. You could have suffered significant injuries and goodness knows what."