Overview
- A video captured on a smuggled phone at HMP The Mount shows Collins, who is serving a 20-year sentence for a 2017 acid attack, receiving a suspected steroid injection in his cell.
- Prison authorities relocated him to HMP Buckley Hall, a higher-security facility, over suspicions of plotting drug smuggling via drones.
- Guards at Buckley Hall uncovered illicit items linked to drug deliveries shortly after his arrival.
- New security measures include restricted airspace zones around prisons and a specialist unit targeting illegal aerial contraband drops.
- MPs Alec Shelbrooke and Lee Anderson have demanded tougher punishments and stricter lockdown procedures to curb prison contraband.