The total value was just short of £200,000
A convicted robber and his girlfriend conspired together to smuggle thousands of pounds of drugs into Nottingham prison. Nottingham Crown Court heard how serving prisoner Mark Staniland arranged from behind bars at the Perry Road jail for Natalie Quinn to use his contacts to bring cocaine in.
The pair were arrested after an intelligence unit found they were arranging the supply of illegal substances into the prison, where Staniland was serving an indeterminate sentence. Evidence from their conversations from prison, messages on mobile phones and ANPR evidence was used to identify five dates in 2021 where Quinn and Staniland had supplied the drugs.
The hearing heard how financial enquiries revealed that Quinn was using one of her bank accounts to receive money from family members of different prisoners who were at HMP Nottingham at the same time as Staniland, many of them being on the same wing.
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