Prisoners who recorded RAP video behind bars on smuggled mobile jailed for another nine months

A judge has handed nine-month jail sentences to two prisoners who starred in a three-minute rap video recorded behind bars on an illegally-held mobile phone. Moysha Shepherd and Demehl Thomas, who appeared in court via a videolink from HMP Birmingham, sniggered as a judge said he did not want to waste time watching their rap duet.  The defendants, both aged 25 and from Birmingham, pleaded guilty after becoming the first ever inmates to be charged with making an unauthorised sound recording in prison.



Father-of-six Shepherd was charged with breaching the 1952 Prison Act in September while serving a five-year sentence for dangerous driving and involvement in a prison van break-out plot.

Thomas was serving a seven-year term for aggravated burglary.