Camp St prisoner caught with ganja in anus

-gets three years added to sentence

A Camp Street prisoner has had his stay extended by three years after he was caught trying to smuggle 40 grammes of cannabis hidden in his anus into the prison.

Odinga Edwards was already serving a 54-month-long sentence for robbery when he tried to smuggle the drugs into the facility on April 24.

He was slapped with a charge of possession of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking and admitted to the crime when he appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday.

According to Prosecutor Joel Ricknauth, on the date in question Edwards had been returning from the Ministry of Home Affairs,