From bras to nappies … the lengths people will go to smuggle illegal goods into Welsh prisons

Bizarre ways are being found to smuggle illegal and unauthorised goods into Welsh prisons.

Bras, babies nappies and items hidden inside the human body have all been used to sneak drugs, mobile phones and contraband to prisoners on the inside.

Judges have warned anybody caught could face a jail sentence themselves.

Earlier this week a Cardiff man was locked up for his involvement in importing banned items in to Bridgend prison.

Detectives were able to forensically link James Anthony Anderson to a package which contained a mobile phone, synthetic cannabis and tablets including diazepam – which was found in the prison grounds.

The 53-year-old was sentenced to 14-months behind bars.

His story is just one of many examples of people going to extreme lengths to smuggle drugs and unauthorised items into prisons.

Substances have even been thrown over prison walls stuffed in oranges and in table tennis balls.

Earlier this year inmate Joseph Daly smuggled the psychoactive drug Spice into Cardiff prison – and hid mini parcels of it up his backside.

The spice had been wrapped in cellophane parcels roughly the size of golf balls, Cardiff Crown Court heard.

Judge Stephen Hopkins said: “When asked to squat three cellophane-wrapped parcels fell from your back passage the size of golf balls.

“This was the deliberate putting in your body of something you knew was prohibited in prisons.”

A number of people have also made attempts to smuggle contraband into prisons by putting things in their pants.

In January 2016, grandad Raymond Brockway was spotted on CCTV taking a parcel out of his trousers and securing it to the underside of a chair in the visitor area of HMP Parc in Bridgend.

In December 2015, Catherine Cowdry, 39, smuggled drugs into Cardiff Prison in her bra while visiting an inmate and was jailed for six months.

Also in 2015, a woman tried to smuggle drugs into Bridgend’s Parc Prison for her former partner – by hiding them inside her mouth.

Other methods used around the world have included carrier pigeons, paintings, rolls of a person’s fat and in food.

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