Evil killers including Wayne Couzens and Ian Huntley to get phones in their cells
Some of the UK’s worst killers, including Ian Huntley, Levi Bellfield and Wayne Couzens, will get phones installed in their prison cells, it has been reported.
Inmates at HMP Frankland – dubbed ‘Monster Mansion’ – are said to be ‘buzzing’ at the idea of being able to make and receive private calls.
Workmen are believed to have spent months installing them so prisoners can avoid queuing.
Critics have called it a ‘terrible’ idea and say the scheme is open to ‘being abused’.
Former Scotland Yard detective Peter Bleksley told The Sun giving a phone to ‘someone serving a relatively small sentence’ and planning to rebuild their life outside ‘is not a bad idea’.
But he added: ‘The idea that monsters like Huntley and Bellfield are getting phones in their cells is outrageous. I can see it being abused.’
Tory MP James Daley, who sits on the Home Affairs select committee, said victims and taxpayers will be ‘sickened’.
Prisoners at Frankland – including Soham child murderer Huntley, serial killer Bellfield and rape killer cop Couzens – are housed in single cells with a TV, washbasin and toilet facilities.
Those who behave well are also allowed games consoles and DVD players.
A Prison Service spokesman told the paper that ‘phone use in prisons is subject to strict time limits, risk assessments and monitoring’.
Other notorious inmates include Lee Rigby’s killer Michael Adebolajo, nail bomber David Copeland and Sally Anne Bowman’s murderer Mark Dixie.
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