A Sri Lankan prisoner who hid his mobile phone up his rectum during a
search of his cell was caught out when guards heard ring tones from his
rear-end.
X-rays taken in hospital, where doctors tried to remove
the handset from his rectum, reveal the lenghts the prisoner went to in
order to conceal it.
The 58-year-old convict at Welikada prison,
Kotte, Sri Lanka, was in possession of a mobile phone - which prisoners
are banned under prison rules.
Before concealing the device
however, he forgot to turn it off or switch it to silent mode, and his
plan was foiled when the phone started ringing from inside him.
Prison
guards searching his cell realised what the man had done and he had to
be admitted to the national hospital in Colombo for doctors to retrieve
the handset from his rectum.
The man had concealed the phone inside his person,' the official said, asking not to be named.
'Unfortunately for him, the phone rang at the wrong time and guards knew he had a phone at the wrong end.'
He
said the man, who is is serving a ten-year sentence for theft, was in
hospital for two days but was discharged and sent back to prison on
Friday after the handset was taken out.
Inmates having access to mobile phones has proved a problem at the high security jail in Sri Lanka's capital.
Violent
riots began in November last year when officers from the Special Task
Force, Sri Lanka's elite police commandos, searched cells for illegal
mobile phones and drugs.
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