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Nehemiah Palmer is given an additional six month prison sentence after being caught attempting to smuggle a mobile phone and charger into prison.

A prisoner was caught suggling a mobile phone and a charger in his bottom as he was begining a jail sentence.

Nehemiah Palmer was apprehended with both items inside his body as he was being checked into Cardiff Prison where he was completing a 16-month sentence for fraud.

The bulky items were detected when the 30-year-old was subjected to an electronic bottom scan in a so called "electric chair".

The authorities then had to wait for nature to take its course before he was charged in connection with the smuggling attempt.

Ian Kolvin, prosecuting, said: "A phone and charger were recovered and he said he had been told by two men to take them in with him."

During Thursday's hearing at Cardiff Crown Court, Judge Thomas Crowther QC asked the prosecution: "Was this a standard charger?"

Mr Kolvin replied: "I believe so."

Palmer was jailed for an additional six months for his smuggling attempt.

Judge Crowther, detailing the recovery of the items, told Palmer: “You were put in a cell and nature took its course. You produced a mobile phone and its charger apparently from your rectum."

In mitigation for Palmer, who is from south London, David Rees, his solicitor, said he had become "embroiled" with others in a fraud involving the cloning of bank cards in the autumn of 2014.

He would have been due for release in four weeks' time - the half-way point of his 16-month term - if it had not been for the phone smuggling.

"He wasn't acting under duress but pressure had been put on him," Mr Rees told the court.

Jailing Palmer again, the judge said he had the possibility of a "bright future" in front of him with the offer of work with a charity caring for the homeless.

"But that future career will have to be delayed now," he said.

A phone AND a charger.

Perhaps somebody told him to 'shove it up your...'

Perhaps not.

Daily Telegraph