Police raid caught crook as he threw drugs into prison

CRIMINAL WAS ABANDONED BY ACCOMPLICE AS COPS SWOOPED

-  THOMAS MOLLOY

UNDERCOVER cops who raided woods around a prison found a man throwing parcels containing drugs, mobile phones, tobacco and screwdrivers over the walls.

Demaine York, 25, was caught on April 3 last year in the area near HMP Forest Bank in Salford.

Plain clothes officers watched as York got off the back of a motorbike, collected two parcels and made his way to the perimeter wall. CCTV then captured him throwing the packages into the exercise yard.

The motorbike rider who brought York to the woods abandoned him once he realised that police were there, Greater Manchester Police GMP) said.