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DRONES were used to flood a jail with “zombie drug” Spice after security netting collapsed.
Astonishingly the netting, supposed to stop the drones, was not fixed for four months.
The blunder allowed the tiny craft to deliver the notorious drug to cons’ cell windows.
Drones were even used to drop drugs to a wing being used to treat drug addicts.
By the time it was repaired Spice use at HMP The Mount, in Bovingdon, Herts, had hit “an all time high”.
Inspectors found an average of 20 prisoners a month needing emergency care after gorging themselves on the highly potent synthetic cannabis.
Around five a month had to be taken to an outside A&E.
The security lapse, which emerged this week in an inspection report, makes a mockery of the Government’s supposed tough line on tackling drugs in prisons.
Netting at the category C prison collapsed when heavy snow fell last December. It was repaired in late April.
The Independent Monitoring Board’s research said: “The healthcare team has had a challenging year with the use of psychoactive substances or Spice reaching an all-time high at the beginning of the year.
“Netting used to protect the prison from throw-overs was brought down by snow.
“Anecdotally, since then drugs and mobile phones have been widely available.” The report added: “It has been a very ANGRY parents have hit out at the makers of a popular baby formula, saying its new recipe is making their babies sick.
Aptamil says it made changes to its First Infant powder after “extensive testing”. But its Facebook page has had a number of complaints about sickness and diarrhoea in newborns.
Sarah Foster, 35, says her eight-week-old son Tobi became ill after she bought the new tub PRISONERS given a job cold calling the public about their finances were sacked after being rude to customers who refused to do long surveys.
A call centre at HMP Lewes in East Sussex closed after four months because bosses could not hire enough lags, a few days ago. The Manchester mum-of-two said: “He was sick straightaway when feeding him the first feed of it.
“As soon as it hit his tummy it was back up. It was then I noticed it didn’t mix the same.”
Bel Garner shared a Facebook post saying the milk looked like it had curdled. She received more than 200 messages from people with similar issues. Danone UK, which makes Aptamil, says that even though the work paid £1.50-an-hour, compared with 70p for other jobs.
A source said: “There were a few instances of inmates just losing patience.”
The call centre, run by Census Data, opened in September 2017. The most parents have not noticed any difference.
But one mother asked: “Why change the formula when the old one was fine?”
Parents have also complained about the size of the packs being reduced from 900g to 800g, while the cost has stayed at £11.
A spokeswoman confirmed that Aptamil’s First Infant Milk, Follow On Milk and Growing Up Milk powders all have “a new Independent Monitoring Board said: “It found it difficult to retain prisoners.”
The firm operates several jail call centres. Lags drum up leads which are passed to other companies.
The Ministry of Justice said inmates were risk-assessed. formulation”. But she said the changes were only made after tests and clinical trials and parents should persevere.
She added: “We don’t want to minimise concerns but our experience with these formulas is changes such as being unsettled or different stools are normally temporary and will settle.
“We recommend parents double check instructions about water temperature and mixing.”