In exchange, Mr Newell received $11,200 into his bank account, which were paid in three separate deposits. Over time, he had been approached by prisoners to carry this out. The court heard that over a two-week course in late December 2019 and early January 2020, Mr Newell rustled 26 pouches of tobacco, two bodybuilding magazines, a glass pipe, a magnet bar and two drill bits into prison facility. “It has some sophistication and planning and exploited your position and knowledge of the prison system.” “Your offending is self-evidently a very serious breach of trust,” Judge Bourke said.
Judge Concludes Mr Newell “Exploited Position and Knowledge of Prison System” with “Sophistication and Planning”Īs Mr Newell’s court hearing, Judge Michael Bourke described his offending as a serious violation that abused the position and intelligence he held of the prison. In early 2020, he was caught out for the offence – which sees tobacco banned in prison where it is traded between inmates, while drill bits are prised because they can be utilised to shroud items in jail cells.įollowing the discovery of Mr Newell’s wrongdoing, he shortly confessed to his crimes, admitting also that he received thousands of dollars in bribes from inmates to smuggle the items. Mr Newell, a 43-year-old bodybuilding champion, was a guard at the facility dating back to 2019 when he trafficked tobacco, a glass pipe and drill bits into the correctional centre, cunningly concealing some of the items in a protein shaker.
On Monday 18 th October 2021, former prison guard Wesley Newell faced the County Court of Victoria and was instructed to pay a whopping $40,000 fine along with serving a two-year community-based order after pleading guilty to smuggling contraband into the Ravenhall Correctional Centre. A brawny prison guard who artfully smuggled contraband behind bars for inmates including bodybuilding magazines using a protein shaker has narrowly dodged a lengthy jail sentence and instead been slapped with an excruciating fine.
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