Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Man Jailed for Smuggling Cell Phones for Inmates

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:58:18 -0500

Man Jailed for Smuggling Cell Phones for Inmates

A British prison guard found himself behind bars for smuggling a cell phone for
inmates at a local correctional facility. The former guard is being jailed for
18 months after officers located his heroin-filled cell phone stuffed into a box
of cornflakes. The judge responsible for jailing the individual expressed
concerns of the possibility of high-security inmates getting hold of these
telephones and planning escapes, organizing contraband or directly harassing
witnesses or staff members.

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Greenwich

Prison guard jailed for mobile phone
smuggling

Greenwich Mercury

A PRISON guard caught smuggling mobile phones to
dangerous inmates at HMP Belmarsh has been jailed for 18
months.

Cash-strapped John Mulcahy, 44, was drawn into the
operation with the promise of riches by criminal Jason Parara.

The Old Bailey heard on Friday that police became suspicious
following a routine search of Parara and his cell.

Officers found a mobile phone stuffed into a box of cornflakes,
and a ball of drugs, made up of crack, heroin and cannabis,
hidden up his bottom on August 7 last year.

Officers decided to keep a close eye on the inmate, who was
serving five years for firearms offences, and he was recorded
making plans by telephone to replace the items with the help
of his mother, Maxine Parara, and Mulcahy.

Mulcahy was later arrested in the prison staff car park in
possession of a mobile phone with heroin attached to it and a
£400 bribe.

The former soldier admitted trying to smuggle in the phone but
said he had no idea drugs had been stuck to the back of it.

He also admitted passing a phone to a second inmate, known
only as James.

Mulcahy was cleared of helping smuggle drugs at his trial in
December last year.

Craig Ferguson, defending Mulcahy, said in mitigation: "There
was chronic alcohol abuse throughout the offences.

"He was using it to anaesthetise himself from the real world."

David Jubb, defending Jason Parara who had a string of
previous convictions, said: "While in prison he was quite
depressed and suicidal and began taking drugs for the first
time."

Peter Lewis, defending Maxine Parara who has previous
convictions for possessing an offensive weapon and obtaining
property by deception, said she had acted only to benefit her
son.

Mulcahy, of Manor Way, Abbey Wood, was jailed for 18 months
after admitting one charge of misconduct in a public office. He
was found not guilty of one charge of conspiracy to supply a
class-A drug.

Maxine Parara, of Northway, Kingsbury northwest London, was
jailed for four years after pleading guilty to one charge of
conspiracy to supply a class A drug.

Jason Parara, of Deacon Road, Cricklewood, north-west
London, was jailed for four years after pleading guilty to three
charges of possessing a class-A drug and one charge of
attempting to posses a class-A drug.

That sentence will not begin until he has finished serving his
current-five year term which began in March 2003.

Jailing the trio, Judge Alan Hitching said: "Concerns expressed
are of the possibility of high-security inmates getting hold of
these telephones and planning escapes, organising
contraband or directly harassing witnesses or members of
staff."

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