A drug dealer used a phone smuggled into prison nearly 300 times in one day as he carried on running his “sophisticated and large-scale” empire from behind bars.
An MP said on Saturday he would be raising with the Home Office how a major drug dealer was able to continue his business from jail – for a second time.
Caernarfon crown court heard that in a single day Paul Williams, 40, of Bangor, used a phone 295 times.
A judge who jailed him for 19 years this week has called for an inquiry into the “scandal.”
Hywel Williams, the local Plaid Cymru MP, added: “Surely somebody should have noticed especially given this man has a history of running his drugs operations from prison.
“There are serious questions to be answered. We need to know security in these prisons is fool proof.”
Jail terms were handed to 22 out of 29 members of the drugs gang.
The prosecution said at HMP Dovegate, Staffordshire, one mobile phone was hidden in the back of a TV and another in a DVD player.
