A drug dealer who hid a phone 'up his backside' when his prison cell was raided has been jailed. Harri Pullen, 24, smuggled the mobile from Strangeways to HMP Swansea by hiding it in the secret compartment of a tin when he moved jails.
Pullen, who had been jailed in October 2019 for drug-trafficking offences, mainly used it to call his mum and girlfriend, a court heard.
But when his cell at HMP Swansea was searched in January, prison officers using hand-held metal detectors discovered he had something in his 'lower-back or rectal area', Swansea Crown Court heard on Monday. Read more: Boris Johnson pictured raising glass at Downing Street party during lockdown He was taken for an X-ray which showed a 'non-organic object secreted within his rectum in the shape of a small mobile phone'.
Pullen admitted he had brought the phone with him from Manchester and tried to blame prison authorities for not finding it when they searched his belongings.
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