A man who hid prescription drugs in his backside has been returned to prison.
Paul Clint Shields, 43, of Isle of Man Prison, was returned to custody for the remainder of a previous sentence and given 73 days for smuggling Class B drugs into the prison.
On March 5 2019, officers arrested Shields and told him he was being returned to prison for a breach of his license.
When he was transported to prison, Shields was placed into a segregated unit as it was believed he may have some illegal substances on him despite him saying he hadn’t.
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Shields was later found in an intoxicated state in his cell and was taken, under guard, to Noble’s Hospital. While there he produced a cling film wrap which he said contained sleeping pills.
Following an x-ray it was revealed he had concealed a Kinder egg in his rectum. The police were called and Shields was subsequently arrested.
He later passed the Kinder egg and two cling film packages.
These contained 10 tablets of dihydrocodeine which prosecutor James Robinson said had a prison value of about £525.
Shields admitted he had concealed the prescription painkiller, but said that it was only ever for his own personal use and that he had hidden it to prevent it being stolen.
Defence advocate David Reynolds said his client had previously been prescribed dihydrocodeine, but that he wasn’t on it when the offence was committed.
Mr Reynolds also said he was surprised that no one at the prison had been able to confirm if any checks had been done on Shields to determine if he was carrying drugs or who was supposed to have done them.
He added that his client had no intention of selling any of the pills and that they were for his own personal use.
Deemster Graeme Cook said that no matter how the drugs got into prison, Shields ’made the decision to take them into prison’ and that he ’chose’ not to declare them when given opportunities.
He ordered that Shields be returned to prison for the remainder of his earlier sentence, meaning he will serve 750 days in jail. A further sentence of 73 days was added and deducted from this sentence so he will serve two years and one month.