The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
PRISON OFFICER JAILED
A prison officer who attempted to smuggle a knife, drugs and mobile phones into HMP Peterborough has been jailed for more than three years.
Ibrahim Hussain (20) had only been working at the jail for a year when he tried to bring in the package filled with illicit goods.
But Hussain, of Burmer Road, Peterborough, was caught when random searches were carried out.
Last week he was jailed for three years and four months after pleading guilty to trying to carry out the plan.
Judge David Farrell, sentencing said Hussain’s actions had put lives at risk - and said he had ‘betrayed his fellow officers and betrayed his moral code of conduct.’
The court was told Hussain was caught bringing the package in on October 26 last year.
The parcel contained the knife, which had a three inch blade, three phones and charging leads, and cannabis.
The court was told the drugs had a street value of around £800 - but in prison they would have a value of £4,000 to £8,000.
Hussain also admitted taking out of prison a ‘wing mass movement sheet.’
Ravinder Saimbhi, defending, said: “He did not know what was in the package - although he knew it was not pyjamas and a favourite teddy bear.”
But Judge Farrell said: “It is obvious it was going to be drugs.”
Hussain had pleaded guilty to two counts of conveying a list A article into prison, one of conveying a list B article, and one of bringing a restricted document out of prison.