The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Naked prisoner is caught hiding four phones in his cell
Anaked prisoner was caught trying to hide a mobile phone between his legs at HMP Perth. Callum Menzies, 39, was caught when guards arrived for a routine cell search and he handed over the phone he was trying to conceal.
Staff then discovered three more phones hidden around his cell.
Menzies was jailed in 2020 after his £500,000 cocaine stash was found by investigators probing a fire at a Perth city centre tower block.
He returned to Perth Sheriff Court via video link this week and admitted possession of the phones.
Fiscal depute Alistair McDermid said: “On October 29 2020, the accused’s cell was searched by prison officers.
“When they entered the cell, they saw the accused completely naked.
“He was placing an item between his legs.”
Menzies handed over the item, which was a small mobile phone, Mr McDermid said.
“The cell was then searched and a further phone was attached to the underside of the sink using Velcro.
“Two other phones were found within a soap box on a shelving unit.”
Solicitor John McLeod told the court: “Mr Menzies is doing very well with his sentence and has been transferred to another jail to complete his one remaining course.
“He is making
“They saw the accused completely naked. He was placing an item between his legs
substantially good use of the time that he has spent in prison.”
Sheriff Euan Duthie deferred sentence until June 23.
In 2020, the High Court in Glasgow heard how Menzies’ fingerprints were found on parcels of high quality cocaine at Perth’s Pomarium Street flats.
The packages – weighing in at 1.5 kilos – were discovered by firefighters following a deliberatelystarted blaze just two days before Christmas 2019.
Around 30 residents had to evacuate their homes during the fire.
Five years earlier, Menzies was jailed for beating a 15-year-old boy with a metal pole, after he played “chap door, run away” on his house.