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Published Date: 11 August 2009
SHEFFIELD MPs are demanding to know how a postcode gang leader was able to organise the execution of one of his fellow "street soldiers" from prison.
Nigel Junior Ramsey was serving a jail sentence for a stab attack when he ordered the "hit" on 17-year-old Tarek Chaiboub last July.

He used a smuggled mobile phone to order younger brother Denzil to carry out the murder with their 17-year-old nex
t door neighbour Levan Menzies and Michael Chattoo, 21.

Known as 'The General' among his S3 'soldiers', Ramsey organised the assassination using phones smuggled into prison.

Sheffield MP Richard Caborn, whose constituency includes Burngreave and Pitsmoor, said he is planning to write to Home Secretary Alan Johnson to demand to know how prisoners are able to access mobile phones and what is going to be done to improve security in the wake of the case.

He said: "I want enquiries made into how this prisoner was able to organise this from his cell and want to know what is being done to stop it happening in the future."

Sheffield Brightside MP and former Home Secretary David Blunkett said he raised the same issue with Ministry of Justice Secretary Jack Straw two months ago after The Star revealed teen killer Seaon Thompson,
jailed for murdering 18-year-old Dale Robertson, was running two pages on social networking website Bebo from behind bars.

The 16-year-old Parson Cross Crew member, of Lydgate Lane, Crookes, was found guilty of Dale's murder along with 18-year-old Reece Mendez, of Yewgreave Crescent, Ecclesfield, after the teen was stabbed at a party on Rokeby Drive, Parson Cross, last September.

Thompson and a 17-year-old boy found not guilty of violent disorder in connection with Dale's death but jailed for slashing another youth with a knife, were regularly updating their sites from their prison cells.

Mr Blunkett said: "I am deeply disturbed that new technology offers the possibility of command and control by sophisticated criminals from inside prison in a way that never existed in the past."

He said Mr Straw is prepared to investigate tighter regulations and more sophisticated ways of clamping down on criminals communicating with the outside world.

A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "We are determined to tackle illicit mobile phones."

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Rodgers,

SHEFFIELD 11/08/2009 10:29:46
Lets get back to real jails. Cells that have nothing in them except for a bed and a table. There would be few places to hide them. Also cells should be designed similar to those in American Jails, Cages where the prisoner can be seen or heard if he attempted to use a mobile. There should be no phone calls at all allowed by prisoners. Visits should be behind glass screens. Any prisoner serving over 18 months should be in a closed prison
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freedom,

Sheffield 11/08/2009 12:05:23
It's pretty simple.

Law and order in the UK is a joke.

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Rodgers,

SHEFFIELD 11/08/2009 13:01:06
Freedom You are right, But I doubt if things will ever change now. I guess that crime will get worse. Prisons will get overcrowded even then, I think the answer will be the same. let these scum out early, Put them on tags that they just laugh at. We are in a no win situation because nobody has the bottle to do anything about it. Other countries just laugh at us.
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El_Mariachi,

11/08/2009 19:21:12
If Blunkett and Caborn were worth their salt then they'd already be aware of the reasons. If their party weren't thinking up ways to privitise the Prison service then they may be able to support the staff in the pursuit of illicit mobile phones.
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Rodgers,

SHEFFIELD 11/08/2009 19:53:14
Blunkett relies upon the parents of many in his constituency to vote for him. His is one of the worse area's in Sheffield now. So easy to buy drugs and weapons in the north of Sheffield now. Blunkett and the rest of his cronies that declassified dope without even thinking about it, They have just created a massive problem as I said in another post. Kids dealing dope. Next. They will deal in death and violence.
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attackcat,

11/08/2009 20:02:51
Rodgers, you talk the talk why don't you have a ride up to pitsmoor and sort them out personally? or better still post your full name and address and i'm sure the "scum" will come to you. Chicken s***
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Rodgers,

SHEFFIELD 11/08/2009 22:11:01
attackcat,

I am in the area. I post my name and I am also well known in the area. I lived there for quite a few years , Some of my family still do. Also the area is pretty large it is only certain parts of pitsmoor that are having this problem. 95% of the people in Pitsmoor are good law abiding people, It is the minority in all area's that are the cause of all the problems we get.
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Berg,

Doncaster 11/08/2009 22:52:13
Insults being traded again?? How mature.

Firstly, to down grade "dope" doesn't drive people into crime, not if it is done in the correct way but that is another issue.

We need a complete black out of all mobile telephone, blue tooth technology in prisons and I'm sure David Blunkett has made this clear to Alan Johnson as if he hasn't he is only going to get more grief.
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Rodgers,

SHEFFIELD 12/08/2009 10:42:27
If fools want to smoke this stuff. All the best to them, I would legalize it and put a tax on it, It would still be cheaper and also cleaner than the sh..t that is sold to kids today. Where I live there is a 14 year old that sells this to others. He will lay it on. If he does not get paid then the idiot that bought it gets a beating and made to pay back in other ways. This is out of control and needs to be stopped. I do not envy the police in this respect. Their hands are tied. There is now far too much confusion as to the law. People get treated different in many cases.

With prisons as soft as they are now, It is a difficult job to stop mobiles from being smuggled in. Even the risk of prison does not deter those that attempt to smuggle phones into jail. Just as drugs. Those that do this always think the same way, " We will not get caught ". If a prisoner gets caught with a mobile then add 12 months onto his sentence . But closed visits are part of the answer.
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attackcat,

12/08/2009 18:53:58
RODGERS I REPEAT CHICKEN S***
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