A HARLOW man has pleaded guilty to attempting to being tobacco into a prison.

Steven Neil, aged 28, of Moor Tower pleaded guilty at Chelmsford magistrates court to the following.

On 16/03/2018 at Chelmsford in the county of Essex, without authorisation, brought, threw or otherwise conveyed an article, namely Tobacco , which had been prescribed for the purposes of section 40A(6) of the Prison Act 1952 by prison rules, into Her Majesty’s remand centre situated at Chelmsford Crown Court, being an institution to which section 43 of the Prison Act 1952 applied, intending that it would come into the possession of a prisoner

Neil was fined £250.00