{"id":2972,"date":"2018-10-06T20:28:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T20:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/perth-prison-drug-smugglers-filmed-themselves-on-drone-camera\/"},"modified":"2018-10-06T20:28:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T20:28:38","slug":"perth-prison-drug-smugglers-filmed-themselves-on-drone-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/perth-prison-drug-smugglers-filmed-themselves-on-drone-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth Prison drug smugglers filmed themselves on drone camera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Two drug smugglers were caught after accidentally filming themselves packing cannabis and pills into a drone which they planned to fly into Perth Prison.<\/p>\n

Paul Reilly, 32, and Michael Martin, 35, intended to get the drugs to Martin’s prisoner brother.<\/p>\n

But the drone crashed and when police studied footage from its camera, they found images of both men.<\/p>\n

At Perth Sheriff Court, Reilly was jailed for 33 months while Martin was sentenced to a year in prison.<\/p>\n

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The court had heard how the pair had no idea they were filming themselves as they loaded the drone with \u00a33,000 worth of drugs hidden inside Kinder Egg sweets.<\/p>\n

They also managed to inadvertently record the door number of the house they were operating from and a car parked outside which belonged to them.<\/p>\n

Both Reilly, of Cumbernauld, and Martin, of Kirkcaldy, were known to police officers who identified them from the images.<\/p>\n

Fiscal depute John Malpass told the court: “At 1 am on 22 September 2017, a prison officer was engaged in a routine patrol of the grounds and walked past A Hall towards the external wall next to the South Inch park.<\/p>\n

“He heard a buzzing noise overhead but couldn’t see anything because of the darkness. He walked the perimeter wall and noticed a drone lying on the ground with a cellophane package lying next to it.”<\/p>\n

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He told the court that the crashed drone was lying below the window of the cell which Martin’s brother was being held in while serving a sentence in Perth Prison.<\/p>\n

“Police seized the drone and package. There was a camera attached to the drone and that had a micro SD card in it,” Mr Malpass said.<\/p>\n

“It was examined and showed one video file held on it.<\/p>\n

“In the footage it is clear the drone has been switched on to try it out, but – unfortunately for those present – it was recording without the knowledge of the suspects and shows three males.<\/p>\n

“They were later identified as Reilly, Martin and a third, as yet unidentified, male, within a bedroom of the house at 66 East March Street, Kirkcaldy.<\/p>\n

“There was footage of Reilly wearing gloves, filling the recovered Kinder Egg with white pills and cutting up the cannabis resin into square blocks.”<\/p>\n

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