Posted on 01/10/2008 1:37:13 AM PST by Stoat
Policed briefs ... Everthorpe jail
A JAIL was broken into to supply a transvestite lag with women’s clothes, it was revealed yesterday.
Officers found knickers, ball gowns and denim skirts in a burglary convict’s cell, along with drugs and mobile phones.
An accomplice on the outside used a ladder to scale the 20ft perimeter wall, making regular break-ins. The hauls were sold to fellow cons at £600 a time – but the contraband was found last Friday after officers were tipped off.
A source at Everthorpe Prison said: “Officers couldn’t believe their eyes when they found all this women’s clothing – including ball gowns obviously smuggled to order.
“The racket is believed to have been going for six months.” Another insider at the 690-inmate jail in Brough, East Yorks, said: “The accomplice would climb the perimeter wall on a ladder and pull it over to use to climb down.
“He’d walk across the yard with the ladder, use it to bridge gaps, then climb up to the cell window.
“The bars had been pulled apart with a crowbar and some sort of dummy grille had been inserted which could be easily removed.
There was meant to be CCTV covering all this but it was either in a blackspot or disabled. This has been urgently rectified.”
Prison governor Gary Monaghan said: “As a result of intelligence relating to the smuggling of drugs and other contraband, staff at Everthorpe initiated a dynamic investigation which led to the identification of the prisoner involved.
“We are working closely with the police to identify those in the community involved in this crime.
“The Prison Service will seek the conviction of any individual attempting to smuggle banned items into prison.”
INMATE Hayes Arnott, 35, serving three years nine months for burglary, was accused of being the mastermind and has been moved to a tougher category B jail.
PRISON security is already a sick joke, with thousands of inmates walking OUT.
Now things are so slack that prisoners’ pals are breaking IN.
They scale the walls at Everthorpe jail in Yorkshire and drop in drugs, mobiles . . . and women’s clothes!
Soon we’ll see Tesco trucks pull up there with home deliveries, ordered online.
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For those of us Yanks not familiar with Tesco (Looks very nice, actually)
New shopping trends ping
All our TESCO’s are now Carrefour.
[*hurl*]
This proves the best hideout is in jail. Come and go as you please, and bring in contraband to make a quick buck. I dunno whether to be impressed of disgusted.
I’m curious about what occasion the cons needed the ballgowns for! Do they have regular cotillions at this jail?
Perhaps there is a desire to emulate the more "progressive" Euro prisons?
A party every weekend at Dutch prison
I see that the Taiwan merger of Carrefour and Tesco occurred in June of 2006
Carrefour appears to be a HUGE company, operating all over except in the USA, it seems.
I'm impressed with the resourcefulness of the 'lags', but disgusted by the apparent disregard that is so prevalent for the safety and security of our British Friends by their own Government.
As usual, Socialism promises cradle-to-grave security but delivers the opposite...this happens everywhere the cancer of Socialism is allowed to take hold.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio would most likely have quite a bit to say about this prison
Inside America's toughest jail (Brit paper says Sheriff Joe Arpaio's ideas would be great for U.K.)
LOL...I live here but I do not speak(beyond some basic social stuff), read r write. I got our son to translate. Now he wants to go shopping.
Agreed! I love etymology and I've always found British slang quite intriguing, that's one reason why I enjoy reading The Sun so much. If one can get past the 90% trashy content they occasionally have a really good article, and it's quite often imbued with numerous slang expressions. The fact that they have been consistently and unashamedly pro-troop and supporters of the war on terror doesn't hurt either :-)
The Sun frequently uses words and phrases drawn from Cockney Rhyming Slang, one of my favorite slang forms. It was originally developed by criminals so that they could talk amongst themselves without the police understanding what they were saying!
If you ever get 'stuck' trying to understand what they're saying, numerous British slang dictionaries exist on the internet, but I haven't found one that really stands out....even at the BBC. They are all lacking, probably because the slang expressions change frequently.
LMAO! He wants to go to your local Carrefour store? I apologize if I've caused a problem!
However, if your local Carrefour has prices that are discounted like the UK Tesco prices are, it seems that it's not such a bad value.
Who knows, you may just find a nice new computer there that you can't live without :-)
A high amperage rectifier attached to the "security" fences would help a lot.
So would perimeter guards with shotguns, pikes or billhooks (forgot for a moment this is Britain) instead of CCTV cameras.
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