A murderer held in one of the nation’s highest security prisons is no longer the butt of jokes, after passing a mobile phone hidden up his backside for 12 days.
The news was first broadcast last week by 2GB host Ray Hadley, who said that prison officials at NSW’s Goulburn Supermax were under the impression that prisoner and rebels bikie Kon Georgiou was hiding a smuggled phone.
“A triple murderer has no rights,” said Mr Hadley on Thursday.
“If he’s got a phone stuck up his clacker in Goulburn Supermax, sit him on the bloody chair and get the phone off him.”
According to informants from the inside, Georgiou had been on a hunger strike over the past week, under the impression he wouldn’t have to go to the toilet, other than to pass urine, if he didn’t consume food.
News of the expelled phone was confirmed this week by a spokesman from Corrective Services NSW.
“This successful outcome was a result of the normal procedures used by Corrective Services NSW in situations such as this to rid prisons of mobile phones,” they said.
Corrective Services minister David Elliott added “Georgiou will no doubt sleep a little more comfortably tonight. I’m delighted that he no longer has access to a mobile phone and will remain in isolation in Supermax”.
Since his conviction in 2003 after being found guilty of killing three Bandido bikie gang members, the prisoner was found to be in possession of a phone in 2010, which was being used to maintain a Facebook page with some 150 Facebook friends.
But according to reports in the UK’s Daily Mail, Georgiou isn’t the only prisoner in the New South Wales prison system who has managed to keep in contact with the outside world.
Thanks to modern technology, minimum security prisoner Beau Wiles was able to post personal selfies for his girlfriend, while prisoner Wesam Hamze was recently reported to have had access to an Instagram account through which he documented life at Parklea prison.
