The man who plotted the murder of Andrew Wanoghu was jailed for at least 30 years. Nicholas plotted the murder from his cell in Belmarsch Prison, where there is a high security.
Wanoghu and Nicholas had been friends with each other until Wanoghu had “dissed” Nicholas’s father. The two ‘friends’ lived in south London. But Wanoghu wasn’t a saint as well. He had been accused of murder himself, but have been cleard by having none enough evidence. The man had a lot of enemies.
Trevor Dennie, the man who did the murder by order of Nicholas, had also been jailed for at least 30 years. He shotted Wanoghu in April 2006 in south Londen. The judge said that both man are two cold-blooded killers. There are extremly dangerous. It were or are? career criminals caught in the murky world of drugs and robberies. The 2 defendants denied the murder. The murder had been plotted by using a telephone that was smuggled in from a lower category prison. The judge accepted that there are problemes with blocking mobiles used by prison staff. At the moment it’s illegal to use the technology to block signals. It had been available previous. With this case the judge hopes that the law will change about the blocking telephones. There is already succes, the technology to detect mobile phones is being trialled and used in prisons.
I understand that it is difficult to decide in which cases and situations it’s possible to use the technology to detect mobile phones. The privacy of people is being tarnished. But I think that in certain cases and situations it’s necessary to use it. This case demonstrates the use of it. But a good and correct use will be necessary.
I always found it ‘fascinating’ how prisonners succeeded to get phones, knifs and guns into prison. I think it’s difficult for the wardens to see everything and such as in Belgium there is a shortage of wardens. It must be difficult to work as a warden and there will be a lot of pressure on them. But I wonder if there have to be more control and a better surch to forbidden objects in prison. Who is responsible and what can they do about it?
Source: The Independent, October 17,2008 , PA
(http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/man-jailed-for-prison-cell-murder-plot-964757.html)
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This was not the first case I heard of, where a murder was devised in prison. Last year, for instance, police men combed out a prison in Belgium, because somebody told them there was a gun inside. I think a forbidden object might be a challenge for some prisoners, so that they try to smuggle it in. Because of the strict safety regulations, this doesn’t always work, so that these prisoners have to find other ways to get the things they want, by means of corrupt guards, etc.
I agree that more control and more searching of forbidden objects in cells, could lower the amount of criminal offences. Blocking signals is, according to me, also a good action to avoid nasty situations. There probably exists a system to pick up the signals of a cell phone, so that they could see how many cell phones are used in a prison, this to discover and to punish guilty prisoners. But like Hanne wrote: what about the regulations about the privacy? I think it will be hard to use this system preventive, although it can be used after a criminal offence to find out the truth.
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