Brothers 4 Life founder Bassam Hamzy has mobile phone seized from NSW maximum security jail
Hamzy was caught trying to flush the mobile phone down a toilet in his cell. (Supplied)
Notorious NSW prisoner, Brothers 4 Life founder Bassam Hamzy, has had a mobile phone seized from his prison cell at the state’s highest security jail.
The mobile phone was found after the inmate was caught trying to flush it down a toilet as officers searched his cell at Goulburn SuperMax last night.
Corrective services carried out the operation yesterday night after a hand-held mobile phone detector picked up signals from a mobile phone in the prison.
Officers caught Hamzy off-guard in his cell as he tried to flush the phone, which was recovered by corrective services, Acting Assistant Commissioner Angie West said in a statementtoday.
She said a significant security threat had been removed from the centre.
The discovery comes two weeks after officers also found a phone concealed within the spine of a book in the prison’s library.
Hamzy is serving a sentence over a 1998 shooting murder, running a drug syndicate and ordering kidnappings from his prison cell.
A full investigation was set to be launched into how the phone was smuggled into the prison, NSW Corrective Services Commissioner Peter Severin said after the Hamzy incident.
With AAP.
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