A group of four people, including a prison officer, schemed to smuggle cannabis and tobacco into HMP Birmingham using an elaborate plan The prison smuggling gang were busted

A crooked prison officer conspired with three others, including her inmate boyfriend, to smuggle contraband into Birmingham's prison. Carla Moskot-Brettell, a custody officer at HMP Hewell in Worcestershire, made efforts to slip items such as cannabis and tobacco into HMP Birmingham.

The 35-year-old worked alongside her partner, Darren Oakes, a serving prisoner at the Winson Green facility, to get the illegal items behind bars.

The pair collaborated with Louise Docker and Patricia Bucknell, both from the Black Country, to prepare and wrap cannabis in cling film. This was then stashed inside a surgical glove

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