Lewis Ball-Smith, 22, is a serving prisoner at HMP Portland. Picture: Hampshire Police/Dorset Echo A PRISONER serving time for stalking and assault hid a phone in his cell in order to contact his family during the pandemic, a court heard. Serving inmate at HMP Portland, Lewis Ball-Smith, aged 22, was escorted to a room for a search following a tip-off that he had a mobile phone at 8.45am on August 14, 2020. Prosecuting, Richard Oakley, explained the ‘serious offence’ to Weymouth Magistrates’ Court. He said: “The defendant entered a cell and asked for a tissue and bag and he provided a mobile phone and handed this over to the prison officers.
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A MAN has admitted to being in possession of thousands of indecent images of children and numerous ‘upskirting’ offences. Keith Mehers, of Maple Way, Gillingham, admitted to being in possession of 2,257 indecent images of children and 30 prohibited images of children. He also admitted to 24 occasions of ‘upskirting’ and being in possession of an extreme pornographic video, which portrayed, in an explicit and realistic way, a person performing an act of intercourse with a pig. The 43-year-old pleaded guilty at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday June 6 and was represented by Patricia Sheehan. Mehers was found to be in possession of 333 counts of category A indecent images of children, which are rated the most serious - 41 of which are videos. He also possessed 804 counts of category B indecent images, 52 of which were videos, and 1120 counts of category C images, 31 of which were videos – on January 11, this year.