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A drug kingpin who was jailed for eight years has had his sentence extended after mobile phones were found twice in his cell at HMP Dartmoor.
Bosnian Albanian Fatling was jailed in August 2022 for supplying Class A drugs after police discovered he ran a gang of dealers across Somerset who distributed cocaine and heroin to hundreds of locations in Taunton, Yeovil, Wellington, Martock and Stogursey.
At his sentencing hearing at Taunton Crown Court it was revealed that the Bosnian controlled phone lines, often from London, took orders from customers and ran at least four couriers. He also arranged accommodation and vehicles for them. The drug line used marketing gimmicks like 24/7 service and better deals. At that hearing, his lawyer said the Bosnian had come to the UK from Albania at the age of 15 to escape violence. He had arrived in a van and was taken into the care of Kensington and Chelsea social services. But by the time he was 21, he was abandoned and disillusioned by social services, where he was left without a home or a job and took up illegal jobs.
At Plymouth Crown Court yesterday, January 4, it was revealed that he had a mobile phone found in his cell on two separate occasions. His lawyer claimed he did so because of the isolation he felt during the Covid lockdown, which saw prisoners locked in their cells for longer than usual. He said some of the calls identified were about his family, although he acknowledged that not all were about his family alone. Judge Peter Johnson highlighted a 2014 court case that noted concerns about the possession of cell phones in prison, particularly smartphones that gave "unrestricted access to the Internet."
After he was sentenced to eight years on August 5, 2022 at Taunton Crown Court for supplying class A drugs, within weeks a phone and charger were found in his cell during an operation.
He was denounced for this matter, but on November 3 of the same year he was caught again by phone. This time it was a red smartphone, along with a charging port and a pair of Bluetooth headphones.
Judge Johnson said these were serious offences, even though the maximum sentence is only one of two years.
"Telephones can be used for criminal matters. It means that the contact with the outside world is completely unmonitored and there is no control, especially when there is a smartphone, over the prisoner who sends messages through the Internet", said the judge.
Judge Johnson declared that the Bosniak will be sentenced to 8 months for the first case and 12 months for the second case of finding the phone, making a total of 20 months, which are added to the 8-year prison sentence.
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