A BRITISH prisoner has been caught with four mobile phones, four chargers and four SIM cards hidden up his bottom.

Convicted robber Steven Wallace triggered an electronic body scanner when he was being admitted to Strangeways prison in Manchester in November, the Manchester Evening News reports.

He was stopped by guards and forced to hand over two phones and two ‘improvised chargers’ he had hidden in his anus, Manchester Crown Court heard.

But that wasn’t the end of it. Wallace admitted there was more to come, and he was placed in a cell for the night.

He then produced two more phones and chargers as well as four SIM cards the next day.

Wallace has been sentenced to an additional six months on top of the time he is already serving.

He isn’t the first prisoner to be found with phones on him — Strangeways prison officers have found the devices inside the jail on 70 occasions in recent months. However Wallace’s method of concealment has certainly raised many eyebrows.

The devices are banned in prison and many of those recovered have been key fob-sized devices which, smugglers hope, are easier to hide internally and externally.

Last week, a mother visiting the Manchester prison was jailed after hiding in her bra four phones and their chargers.