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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Bronwen Weatherby, PA & Damon Wilkinson

Jail for drug dealer who hid mobile phone smuggled from Strangeways 'up his backside'

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.

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