A naked 25-stone drug dealer was caught trying to hide a mobile phone between his thighs when prison officers raided his jail cell.
Callum Menzies had another three mobile phones stashed within his cell at Perth Prison and today he was jailed for a year.
Menzies, 39, was serving nearly five years behind bars after he was caught with £500,000 worth of cocaine in his Perth flat.
Fiscal depute Alistair McDermid said prison officers were carrying out a routine inspection of the heavyweight drug dealer's cell on 29 October 2020.
Mr McDermid told Perth Sheriff Court: "On 29 October 2020, the accused's cell was searched by prison officers. When they entered the cell, they saw the accused completely naked.
"He was placing an item between his legs. He gave the officers the item, which was a small mobile phone.
"The cell was then searched and a further phone was attached to the underside of the sink using Velcro. Two other phones were found within a soap box on a shelving unit."
Solicitor George Mathers, defending, said: "There was nothing sinister in his use of the phone. It was mainly to phone his girlfriend.
"He says the phones were not his, but there is nothing to substantiate that. He is in a difficult position. He does have a record."
Menzies, from Perth, had 12 months added to his sentence and Sheriff Euan Duthie said: "You had not one, but four mobile phones in your cell. I am bound to regard that at the upper range, if not the top."
Menzies admitted having four mobiles on 29 October 2020, and a separate offence of having a sim card in the prison on 31 August that year.
In 2020, the High Court in Glasgow heard how Menzies' fingerprints were found on parcels of high-quality cocaine at Perth's Pomarium Street flats.
The packages - weighing in at 1.5 kilos - were discovered by firefighters following a deliberately-started blaze just two days before Christmas 2019.
Around 30 residents had to evacuate their homes during the fire. Menzies was jailed for four years and eight months for drug dealing.
Five years earlier, Menzies was jailed for beating a 15-year-old boy with a metal pole, after he played "chap door, run away" on his house.
In another case, he was ordered to carry out community work after lashing out at police officers because their handcuffs were too tight for his fat wrists.
Menzies flew into a rage during a 50th birthday party and officers turned up to deal with him after he punched his way through a pane of safety glass.
They were treating his injuries when he subjected them to homophobic abuse and launched into a tirade of shouting and swearing.
His solicitor said part of the problem was the tightness of the handcuffs the officers were trying to place on him.
Solicitor David Holmes said: "It would seem part of the issue was the application of handcuffs which were too tight for his preference."
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