A prison litter picker was rumbled a part of an elaborate plot to smuggle drugs into jail after picking up a bag of drugs thrown over the wall and pocketing them in his trousers.
Joseph Drake, Joseph Cropper, Ronan Hanlon and Jordan Smith were part of a Merseyside-based gang which shipped hundreds of kilograms of illicit substances potentially worth an estimated £8.4million across the country.
They were locked up for a combined total of more than 75 years this week, the ECHO reports. Smith was also sentenced for his part in a plot to smuggle prohibited items into HMP Berwyn in North Wales.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that the scheme was uncovered after a car pulled up next to the jail on June 2 2020. READ MORE: Locked Up this week: Dad of Brianna Ghey murderer, the 'Marigold burglar' and speeding drivers Callum Taylor, a passenger being carried in the rear, then stepped out of the vehicle, climbed over a fence and threw two packages containing cannabis worth around £2,500, a SIM card, a mobile phone charging cable and a quantity of tobacco into an exercise yard.
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