POLICE have told the Bathurst Local Court how an inmate on transfer from Sydney to the Lithgow Correctional Centre had tried to smuggle a mobile phone into the centre hidden in a brown coloured bottle of body lotion.
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Inmate Abdul Baghdadi, 24 appeared last week before Bathurst Local Court where he was sentenced to a concurrent year in jail for possession of the illegal phone and sim card on Saturday, July 3.
The court heard that Baghdadi was serving a lengthy sentence that dated from 2007 and expired on February 9, 2011 for serious offences of armed robbery and firearms charges.
He had been moved from a correctional centre in Sydney when he underwent screening on arrival at the Marrangaroo centre near Lithgow.
Prison officers had scanned Baghdadi’s personal belongings using an x-ray machine. They had detected something that should not have been inside a brown bottle marked Dove body lotion.
They opened the bottle to discover a Nokia mobile mobile phone before questioning Baghdadi.
Magistrate Jan Stevenson imposed a jail sentence of 12 months to commence on November 8.
