A MAN who was involved in flooding a Bournemouth community with drugs has had his jail term extended after prison staff located a phone inside a picture frame made out of matchsticks.

Olatunde Ademuyiwa, who was a ‘fixer’ in the ‘Scouse Porky’ gang, received an eight-year prison term for two offences of conspiracy to supply cocaine and heroin.

This sentence was handed down in January 2020 following a trial in July 2019.

Ademuyiwa, aged 33, was back before the courts this week after an intelligence led search of his cell at HMP Guys Marsh near Shaftesbury unearthed the Huawei smartphone.

Prosecuting, Rob Welling said an initial search of the defendant’s cell in July last year did not find anything untoward, however, they were drawn to a “picture frame made out of matchsticks”.

Mr Welling said they found the phone inside a “compartment” in the frame.

From a download of the phone’s data, it was found more than 100 calls had been made, the prosecutor said.

The court heard the numbers of five of the defendant’s authorised contacts, who he could call using the prison phones, were saved on the mobile device.

Mitigating, Harry Garside said he accepted the offence was one which must have an immediate custodial sentence and consecutive to the current term of imprisonment.

Mr Garside said the phone did not belong to the defendant, referencing a statement from another inmate who supported this submission.

Ademuyiwa, previously of the West Hill area of Bournemouth, used the mobile phone to speak with his father, who was suffering ill health, his partner and his mother.

“It is a case of Mr Ademuyiwa quietly using it to call those who he sought to call and no further criminal activity,” the barrister said.

Following the discovery of the phone, Ademuyiwa lost some of the prison privileges he had been given, however, after good behaviour he had been able to regain some of these, the court heard.

Since then he was transferred from the Category C Dorset prison to HMP Liverpool, which is a more secure Category B prison.

Ademuyiwa appeared via video link from jail for the Bournemouth Crown Court hearing on January 4, having previously pleaded guilty to possessing a mobile phone in prison.

Judge Stephen Climie said he accepted Mr Garside’s submissions that the phone did not belong to Ademuyiwa and he only used it to contact his close family and friends.

The defendant received a six-month prison sentence to run consecutive to his existing term of imprisonment.

The court heard he was due for release in November 2022, but the offender is now likely to spend Christmas and new year behind bars.

Ademuyiwa was one of 10 members of the ‘Scouse Porky’ gang, which flooded the West Howe area with cocaine and heroin delivered from Merseyside.

Couriers from the group would travel from Bournemouth to the north west to deliver cash and collect drugs, sometimes staying for just 40 minutes before heading back down south.

The dealers started transporting the drugs and cash in car battery packs. However, after the arrest of one of the group, they changed tactics, instead using gift-wrapped boxes and gift bags to hide the goods.

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