A Nottinghamshire jail was placed in lockdown for hours when one of the prisoners placed a hoax improvised bomb in the exercise yard of its segregation unit. Nottingham Crown Court heard how convicted arsonist Mathew Lea left the plastic bottle fitted with wires and white powder under a door after he had covered the CCTV camera lens, which was monitoring him, with tissue paper.
Jailing him for 20 months, Judge Rosalind Coe KC said: “It was your actions which caused the segregation unit to have to be evacuated and the police and bomb disposal experts to have to be called out and caused a huge amount of disruption to the prison. Whether it was a joke or otherwise, you clearly intended for people to believe it might be an explosive device.
“He was spoken to by the police and told them it was ‘just a joke’.” Miss Pitman said after being moved to HMP Wakefield, in December 2022, a routine search of the defendant found the SD card which he later claimed he had “not even watched” and which contained the terrorism videos.
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