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Crackdown on cell mobiles in jail
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 next 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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