Nelson Callwood appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday, where he pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of cannabis after being found with the drug last month while incarcerated at Her Majesty’s Prison.
Mr. Callwood, who was convicted of buggery after sodomising another inmate while serving a sentence for another crime, was allowed outside of the prison to wash a car at about noon on April 2, Crown Counsel Leslie-Ann Faulkner told the court. He walked to a bus in the prison parking lot where cleaning supplies are stored and extracted a bucket, but didn’t fill it with water, making prison officers suspicious, the prosecutor said.
When he returned to the prison, officers searched the bucket, finding two packs of bamboo paper, a carton of cigarettes, a brown liquid that smelled of alcohol and a number of cannabis dime bags wrapped in duct tape, Ms. Faulkner said. The bags contained 16 grams of cannabis, with an estimated street value of $160, she said.
He told police at the time that the bucket and its contents were his, Ms. Faulkner said.
See the May 5, 2011 edition for full coverage.