Prisoners hoping for a Christmas in high spirits were left down in the dumps, after sniffer dogs wrecked their contraband Christmas booze-up.
A specialist squad of K-9 units - known as hooch pooches - were on the ball during a recent pre-Christmas patrol, after bosses caught wind that a mammoth batch of home brew was being created on prison grounds.
The smart hounds sniffed out a string of large illicit stashes after locating a scent, in an operation mustered up by determined governors at HMP Stocken in Rutland, East Midlands.
