Brazen inmates including cocaine dealer and killer film themselves behind bars

A dealer who supplied multi-million pound shipments of drugs and a convicted murderer are among a group of criminals caught on camera partying in prison and chanting vile racism.

Leon Hinchcliffe, who was jailed in May 2018 for his role in a Wirral drugs gang behind a £9m cocaine plot, videoed himself and other criminals inside HMP Buckley Hall in Rochdale. The video shows Hinchcliffe and a number of other individuals inside a cell listening to dance music and drinking what is thought to be alcohol.

One of the other men inside the cell, who the Liverpool Echo reports is convicted murderer John Dyer, then stands up and shouts 'where are the n******, get them in here'. The other men all then chant the same vile racist language. Hinchcliffe repeatedly shouts 'Dyer' before the men all pose for the camera.

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It is reported another man in the centre of the video is another murderer, Michael Haigh, who killed a dad-of-two in a hit and run attack. It is understood the video was taken inside HMP Buckley Hall - a category C prison near Rochdale - on Friday, May 24. The sound has been muted on our version of the video because of the vile racist language used by the prisoners.

A source, who sent the video to the Liverpool Echo, said 'drug lords and murderers celebrating what they've done when they should be in rehabilitation sickens me...this is not fair on the victims of the families of these monsters'. It is understood the videos were shared online but have since been removed.

A spokesperson for the Prison Service said: "We do not tolerate mobile phones in prison and those found with them can face extra time behind bars." The Prison Service