A prison officer has denied murdering a man who was found dead on his 40th birthday. James Johnson, 29, pleaded not guilty to murdering David Toulson in Salford.
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A bodybuilder who once convinced a besotted prison officer to smuggle steroids into prison was caught with class A drugs in his bum crack. Ashley Keany was found with 16.1g of high purity crack cocaine clenched between his buttocks when he was taken into custody after being arrested in July last year.
The 35-year-old has been in and out of custody since 2007 but told a judge he is tired of prison - and just wants to go to Lytham with his nan. Keany pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply on the basis the drugs, worth £1,610, were 'only for sharing with his stepdad', Lancs Live reports.
He had no intention of further supply, Beth Pilling, prosecuting, told Preston Crown Court yesterday (July 14). Keany's defence barrister Daniel Harman summarised a letter Keany wrote to the judge.
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He said: "Here I am again, after 20 years of being in and out of prison. It's time to grow up. I just want to go for a day out in Lytham and sit on a bench with my nan."
In 2015, Keany was jailed for eight years for being a key player in a Preston gang which used a park as its headquarters to pedal heroin and crack. The gang hid a live and loaded firearm in a hollowed out tree and used a catcall howl to signal to drug users and gang members that they were in the area.
While behind bars, in 2019, the bodybuilding lag was sentenced to a further three and a half years after he struck up a secret romance with a prison officer. He set up a drugs racket from his cell at HMP Garth and convinced the besotted officer to smuggle steroids inside for him.
When he was eventually released, Keany breached the terms of his licence,
A prison officer has denied murdering a man who was found dead on his 40th birthday. James Johnson, 29, pleaded not guilty to murdering David Toulson in Salford.
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