A married couple ran a “supermarket for prisoners” and used a drone to smuggle drugs and phones into jails.
Danielle McEllin, 35, and Jake Burns, 29, both of Monfa Road, Bootle, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday after pleading guilty to seven charges between them relating to bringing contraband into prisons using drones. Jake Burns pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy to convey cannabis, phones, tobacco and cannabis resin into prison, between July 7 and August 2 last year.
His wife pleaded guilty to assisting and encouraging him to convey cannabis and cannabis resin, telephones, and tobacco into prisons, between the same dates. Burns pleaded guilty on the basis that he did not conspire with his wife, and that she did not know of his intentions, but did accept there was a proposed recipient of the contraband inside the two prisons.
