Suspected drug stash found sewn into man’s underpants

A convicted gunman tried smuggling what’s believed to be more than 100 ecstasy tablets into jail by stitching them into the lining of his underpants – but his plan was scuppered by hawk-eyed police custody staff during a search of his prison bag.

The man was arrested from his home in Wolverhampton, in the early hours of yesterday morning (Jan 21) for breaching the terms of his prison release licence by ignoring a night-time curfew. When police checked a bag he'd packed for prison they found