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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Robert Harries & Susie Beever

Mum plotted with jailed son to smuggle drugs to him in ball thrown over prison wall

A gang member's street cred went down the drain as he appeared in the dock with his mum.

Jamie Challis was jailed for his part in a terrifying robbery in which he held a knife to a man's throat as he and two other thugs demanded cash.

Just months before the ordeal, 25-year-old Challis conspired with mum Amanda Challis to smuggle drugs hidden in tennis balls into prison while he served time.

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