Drones could be used to smuggle guns into jails and airlift escaping prisoners, a union warned, after they were branded a threat to national security.
Chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor accused the police and Government of giving up control of the airspace above two high security jails as he called on them and the security services to “urgently confront” activity from criminal gangs behind the growing number of drug and weapons drops being made by drones.
