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Prisoner stashes phone in butt, needs surgery

Needed emergency surgery because he could not get the phone back out of his body

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DUNDEE, Scotland — A prisoner who tried to sneak a mobile phone into jail was left in discomfort after it got stuck up his backside.

Roderick Bambury was caught trying to take the phone into maximum security Perth Prison. He set off a metal detecting seat when he sat down, but then needed emergency surgery because he could not get the phone back out of his body.

Bambury paid tribute to the medical staff who helped him as was sent back to prison for four and a half months at Perth Sheriff Court on Thursday. The 36-year-old, of Lansdowne Court, Dundee, admitted having a personal communications device in Perth Prison on 1 June last year.

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