3 Feb, 2020 @ 13:22
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REVEALED: Mini phones as small as a big toe being smuggled into prisons inside visitors’ RECTUMS across Spain’s Andalucia allowing British and Spanish criminals to continue working and ‘plan their escapes’

Small Mobiles

Small Mobiles

PRISON guards in Spain have warned that mini phones being smuggled into prisons are allowing criminals to continue their work behind bars. 

The devices, measuring as small as a big toe or finger, are brazenly being sold on Facebook as ‘phones for prisoners’.

The plastic phones work with a micro SIM card and have a USB port for charging and in some cases even a wireless ear piece.

An association of prison workers has denounced the devices, claiming they are almost impossible to detect, especially in environments where guards are overworked.

The mini phones, which were banned in the UK in 2017, are brought into the prisons during visitation days.

While some are smuggled inside deodorant cans, slippers or baby diapers, the majority are put inside a condom and placed in the rectum of a visitor.

Late last year an X-ray of a prisoner in Huelva, who had been transferred from a jail in Sevilla, was also hiding his phone inside him.

The phones measure 7cm or smaller and make no noise.

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They can cost around €30 outside of prison before being sold on for around €200 once inside.

Officials are seizing around 10 mini phones a week but say they are very difficult to find.

“Prisoners can wear hoodies and hide their ear piece or can make a call while inside their cells before easily hiding the tiny device if they hear a guard coming,” the association of prison workers said in a statement.

They warned that the most common use of the mini mobiles is for drug kingpins to carry on running their businesses on the outside.

But they are also being used for indoctrinating inmates into jihadi terrorism, the workers claimed.

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Other criminals use the phones to continue threatening their gender violence victims.

Meanwhile, according to the guards, inmates may notify family members or colleagues of when they will be transferred and where to.

“This is a great danger because they can attack vehicles when they are going to be transferred,” the group warned.

The workers are calling for more personnel to help tackle the influx of the devices.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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