Prison guards ‘best thieves in the jail’ boast after scam
TWO prison guards who boasted they were the best thieves in their jail helped run a £100,000 racket from behind bars.
Carl Byron, 37, and Anthony Bradbury were key figures in the sixyear scam at Forest Bank jail.
The privately run prison in Salford, Gtr Manchester, ran a rehabilitation scheme where inmates repackaged returned DVDs and computer games. But Byron from Salford, and Bradbury, 37, from Bury, would syphon them off to sell on eBay.
In a text message they boasted they had “more DVDs than HMV”.
The pair were shopped by honest staff at the Category B jail.
Both pleaded guilty at Manchester crown court to theft and money laundering yesterday. Byron was jailed for two years, 10 months and Bury for two years and two months.