Crafty lags beating £100m airport-style detector by using chemistry skills to make drugs in jails

CRAFTY lags are beating a £100million airport-style detector by using their chemistry skills to make drugs inside jails, a report reveals.

Ingredients are being cooked up into hard drugs in makeshift labs in cells to avoid being caught smuggling them in by X-ray scanners.

Jail sources compared the scam to TV’s Breaking Bad starring Bryan Cranston in which a chemistry teacher makes his own drugs.

Inspectors at HMP Wayland, a category C jail in Norfolk, said the mind-bending zombie drug Spice is now so widely available it has halved in price.

It used to be smuggled into jails impregnated on sheets of paper and in letters until the scanner equipment and dogs started to detect it.

But inspectors say inmates have worked out how to make “Spice equivalents” or “home-made Spice”.

A prison source said: “There are prisoners who know how to find the ingredients they need and know what they are doing.

“They were getting caught all the time smuggling drugs in through the scanner so they decided to make their own instead.

“There are more drugs than ever now.”

The report by the Independent Monitoring Board said that Spice is being “manufactured” to order.