Arthur Collins handed eight months more jail for smuggling phone to call Ferne McCann from cell

Jailed for acid attack: Arthur Collins
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Acid attacker Arthur Collins was today sentenced to an additional eight months for using a smuggled mobile phone to call his reality TV star ex-girlfriend Ferne McCann from his prison cell.

Collins, 25, hid the device, two sim cards and two memory sticks inside a crutch while on remand in September, before his trial over the brutal dance floor crime.

In December he was jailed for 20 years for the incident at a nightclub in Dalston, east London which left 16 people with chemical burns and three people temporarily blinded.

He admitted hiding the phone in the crutch, which he had been using after hurting his feet trying to evade police while on the run, a week later on video link from the maximum security HMP Belmarsh in south east London.

Collins’ lawyer Audrey Mogan told the court that he had used the phone not “for any sinister purpose” but to make private calls to his pregnant girlfriend Ferne McCann, who gave birth in November.

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