Teen in plot to smuggle phones and drugs into jail

CANNABIS, DRONE AND £16,000 FOUND IN HOME

- PAUL BRITTON

A JUDGE hit out at the 'scourge' of drug and mobile phone smuggling into prisons as he sentenced a man found with cannabis, a drone, a machete and phones at his home.

The case followed a 'failed attempt' by smugglers with a drone to 'convey prohibited articles' into HMP Hindley in May last year, the judge, Recorder Jeremy Lasker, added.

The fingerprints of Rogent Daley, 19, were 'found on the contraband seized by the police' at Hindley, near Wigan, which ultimately led police back to his home on Staycott Street in Moss Side, Manchester Crown Court was told.

The court heard police raided Daley's home in October last year on the basis of 'the intelligence that they had gathered about his criminality!

Eighteen bars of cannabis were found in total, which the judge said were 'destined to be smuggled by air, by drone, into prison!