When Goulburn jail inmate Adam Mansour's love life struck trouble, he
sought a lifeline. Or at least a communication line in the form of
mobile phones secreted in the cell he shared with a co-accused.
Mansour, 26, told Goulburn Local Court last week he used the phones after his fiancé left him to join Channel Ten series,
The Shire. In his depressed state he had used the phones speak to friends and “other girls,” he told Magistrate Geraldine Beattie, the
Goulburn Post weekly newspaper reported.
“I made a mistake, I've suffered for it and I'm sorry,” he said via audiovisual link.
He pleaded guilty to owning and using two of the four mobile
phones Corrective Service officers found in a wall section behind his
cell window frame. His cellmate, Abdul Zahed, 27, also pleaded guilty to
using a mobile phone/sim card and possessing and attempting to
prescribe a restricted substance.
Officers found a stash of electronic equipment and drugs after searching the pair's minimum security cell on June 25 this year.
Behind the wall were four mobile phones, three phone
chargers, a USB Sandisk thumb drive and cable, a set of earphones and
five plastic re-sealable bags filled with brown powder, white powder,
white pills, Xanex tablets and Subutex tablets, police documents
tendered to the court stated.
Zahed admitted to owning two mobile phones and the Xanex and
Subutex tablets. He used the former to help him sleep and the latter to
assist withdrawal from a drug addiction, he told police during
interview.
The former electrician, of Tahmoor, told the court he took
full responsibility for the offence but used the phones to stay in
contact with his wife after her miscarriage. There had also been a death
in the family three months ago.
“I've been punished,” he told the magistrate. “I've been
locked in my cell 23 hours a day, put in maximum security and had my
privileges taken away.”
“What else did you expect the jail to do when officers found those things in you cell?” Magistrate Beattie replied.
She noted Zahed's guilty plea to “two very serious offences
that went to the heart of jail security.” But she said welfare services
were available to him to deal with his stress and drug addiction.
Magistrate Beattie said Zahed had a very significant criminal history with violence and firearm offences on his record.
She sentenced him to an extra six months' prison on both charges, to be served concurrently.
He will be eligible for release on June 15, 2015.
Mansour, who was serving time for “serious offences of
violence,” was sentenced to an extra five months' prison. His earliest
release date is December 2, 2013.
Magistrate Beattie said she considered Mansour's subsequent
change in jail classification, the fact he'd been moved away from his
family and that he'd made full admissions. His sentence was reduced for
these reasons.
gouldburnpost.com.au 22 Aug 2012
Free advertising for the trash reality show the Shire.
Events such as this are staged, to promote the low ratings reality shows that the corporate media use to degrade the values and morals of the children of the canon fodder.
The theme is that there is always a 'shock' event that keeps the simple minds glued to the 'idiot box'.
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