IN-DEPTH: Why the Prison Service Has Never Been Able to Get to Grips With Mobile Phones in Jail

Published on February 19, 2024

Seven people have been convicted of conspiring to smuggle drugs into prisons in London and Kent after a trial which heard ringleader Alex Mullings manipulated his underlings from behind bars while using 33 illicit mobile phones. Mullings’s mother, Alexandra Nicolaou, 52, girlfriend Charlotte Finch, 21, and co-defendants Hamza Ahmed, 29, Ahmed Binfgih, 58, Katriye Kaplan, 32, and Danyaal Msaouri-Coulson, 22, were found guilty of a series of charges at Southwark Crown Court. At the start of the trial, in Aug. 2023, prosecutor Kevin Dent, KC, said Mullings, who he described as running an operation akin to “an illegal Amazon,” had already pleaded guilty to a number of charges, including conspiracy to supply heroin on the streets of London on a “commercial” scale....

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