A PRISONER at HMP Bullingdon was told he must spend another 15 months in jail after he was caught hiding a mobile phone in his buttocks.

Roddy McDonald, 28, wept as he was sentenced via videolink at Oxford Crown Court on Tuesday after previously admitting illegally possessing two mobile phones.

The court heard one phone was found in his buttocks and another under his pillow when prison officers searched his cell at the jail on July 25.

Cathy Olliver, prosecuting, told the court McDonald, who is serving a three-year sentence for robbery, had used the phones to text a woman and to ask someone outside jail to send him £35.

The court heard phones are prized possessions in prison and can be worth up to £500.

Neil Jarvis, representing McDonald, said the father-of-one understood the seriousness of the offences.

Mr Jarvis said McDonald's young daughter had been born when he was in prison and he had never had a chance to see her.

He said: "He has a place to reside on his release, he has an offer of employment with his uncle in landscaping.

"He wants to make a new start.

"He is going to move away from the area he was living in, make a move away from those he was associating with in the past."

Jailing McDonald for another 15 months on top of his current sentence Judge Peter Ross said: "Those who bring telephones into prison, those who retain them in prison and use them are engaging in an action that is deeply corrosive to the prison system."