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AN alleged accomplice was a "key player" in planning a "professional robbery" from his prison cell, a court hears.

AN alleged accomplice was a "key player" in planning a "professional robbery" from his prison cell, a court hears.

Erlestoke is a men’s prison in the village of Erlestoke, Wiltshire.

By Advertiser Reporter Wiltshire High Sheriff Sir Charles Hobhouse at Monkton Farleigh Manor, where he is hosting a fete on Saturday WILTSHIRE High Sheriff Sir Charles Hobhouse will put Swindon charities who help tackle mental health issues front and centre at a fundraising fete at his home on Saturday. STEP Swindon and Youth Adventure Trust will be among 10 grassroots charities running stalls at the annual event at Monkton Farleigh Manor, near Bradford on Avon, which he is devoting to good causes across the county this year. STEP,...

A new book provides a scathing look back at “all the things that went wrong” in prison history in England. Available today (April 8) Prison Governor’s Journal, by Brendan O’Friel, provides fresh insights into the workings of prisons – including examples of unusual events - and raises new and difficult “unanswered questions”. Among those questions is why pre-emptive action was not taken to prevent the riots of April 1986, in which the-then young offender establishment at Erlestoke Prison was considerably damaged. Around 40 people escaped from the facility, and 16 remained a...