A naked prisoner was caught trying to hide a mobile phone “between his legs” at HMP Perth.
Callum Menzies was caught red-handed when guards arrived for a routine cell search.
The 39-year-old handed over the phone that he was trying to conceal.
Staff then discovered a further three mobiles hidden around his room.
Menzies was jailed in 2020 after his £500,000 cocaine stash was found by investigators probing a major fire at a Perth city centre tower block.
He returned to Perth Sheriff Court this week – via video link – and admitted possession of four mobiles behind bars.
Hidden using Velcro
Fiscal Depute Alistair McDermid told the court: “At the time of this offence, the accused was serving a sentence of four years and eight months in respect of being concern in the supply of cocaine.
“On October 29, 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.”
Menzies handed over the item, which was a small mobile phone, Mr McDermid said.
“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.”
Tower block blaze
Solicitor John McLeod told the court: “Mr Menzies is doing very well with his sentence and has been transferred to another jail to complete his one remaining course.
“He is making substantially good use of the time that he has spent in prison.”
Sheriff Euan Duthie deferred sentence until June 23.
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 one-and-a-half 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.
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.
