Which is why it’s called a pot noodle…
The six-year investigation was carried out by South Yorkshire Police’s prison anti-corruption unit and has now seen a group of a dozen people handed sentences which total more than 25 years behind bars.
The group, which included inmates and a prison officer at HMP Lindholme in Doncaster as well as their loved ones, helped to smuggle MDMA, steroids, spice, cannabis, mobile phones and other banned items into the prison between August 2018 and July 2019.
The complex criminal network unravelled when Victoria Sked, who was just days away from leaving her job with the prison service, had her bag searched and two cling film packages were found inside an open Pot Noodle.
The packages were found to have contained what was thought to be cannabis.
Further searches of her person were carried out and she was discovered to be in possession of MDMA, psychoactive substances, more cannabis, vials of steroids, mobile phones, tobacco and a SIM card.
Her home was then searched and officers found a huge stash of illicit articles, including 17 mobile phones, 332 sheets of Spice paper, five iPhones, five wraps of cannabis and almost £8,000 in cash.
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