Phone smuggled into prison using weetabix

A wary prison guard was shocked to find the device inside a box of Weetabix after it had been cleverly concealed in the centre of a hollowed out piece of the breakfast cereal. PHOTO/BANG SHOWBIZ

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  • Michael Spurr, chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, which runs prisons in England and Wales, believes that prisoners have so much time on their hands they can easily think of ways to beat the security checks, reports the Daily Mail newspaper.

A criminal tried to smuggle a mobile phone into prison inside a piece of cereal.

A wary prison guard was shocked to find the device inside a box of Weetabix after it had been cleverly concealed in the centre of a hollowed out piece of the breakfast cereal.

Michael Spurr, chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, which runs prisons in England and Wales, believes that prisoners have so much time on their hands they can easily think of ways to beat the security checks, reports the Daily Mail newspaper.

He said: "They are on about the Great Escape at the moment and how inventive they were then. It's no surprise: if people have time they can be very inventive.

"We have reduced the risks of contraband, and drugs and escape material and a whole array of things that come through the prison gate."